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Veronica O'Regan and Elaine Riordan
2018
December
Journal Of Language And Politics
Comparing the Representation of Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Migrants in the Irish and UK Press: A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis
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Refugees, migrants; discourse analysis
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Coverage of migration in the media intensified during 2015 against the backdrop of a largescale European refugee crisis. Using a combination of methods associated with corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, this paper explores the representation of refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and migrants over a three month period, from September to November 2015, in UK and Irish newspapers. Data was collected from Nexis, using the Baker et al. (2008) RASIM framework. Using corpus linguistic tools, we identify how these groups are represented, before drawing on CDA to examine the data sets in more detail. To do this, frequency lists of the UK and Irish corpora were compared across variety followed by a more detailed diachronic analysis of the most frequently occurring items. The extent to which the issue of migration is refracted through a discourse of terrorism in Irish and UK coverage is compared through cluster analyses and a close CDA analysis of randomised down samples of the Irish and UK sub-corpora drawing in particular on the DHA approach.

http://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.17043.ore
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