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Investigating the representation of migrants in the UK and Italian press: A cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse analysis

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posted on 2023-06-08, 18:19 authored by Charlotte TaylorCharlotte Taylor
This paper is a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse study of the representation of migrants in the Italian and UK press and it adopts a two-stage methodological approach. In the first phase, the number of references to nationalities which collocate with refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, migrants (and Italian equivalents) are calculated and this information is subsequently used to identify any ‘mismatch’ between the amount of attention that migrants from a given country receive in the media and the official population estimates. In the second, and most extensive stage, the representations of the foregrounded nationalities are analysed through the moral panic framework. Results show an extensive negative representation of some groups, but there is no evidence of a fully iterated moral panic relating to any of the nationalities investigated.

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Journal

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

ISSN

1384-6655

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing

Issue

3

Volume

19

Page range

368-400

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  • English Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2014-09-18

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-05-25

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2014-09-18

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