Schröter, Melani, Veniard, Marie, Taylor, Caroline and Blätte, Andreas (2019) A comparative analysis of the keyword multicultural(ism) in French, British, German and Italian migration discourse. In: Viola, Lorella and Musolff, Andreas (eds.) Migration and media: discourses about identities in crisis. John Benjamins, pp. 13-44. ISBN 9789027202475

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Abstract

This chapter looks into discourses about migration in four European countries through the lens of cultural keywords (cf. Williams 1983; Bennett et al. 2005; Wierzbicka 1997); using Corpus Assisted Discourse Analysis, it compares the use of the keywords multicultural and multiculturalism. The study is based on corpora from British, French, German and Italian newspaper articles covering the time span 1998-2012, collated from one conservative and one left-liberal national newspaper in each language.

Across the languages, the results show that the adjective multicultural is mostly descriptive of a state of affairs, typically without negative evaluation, and that the noun multiculturalism is associated with abstract concepts and points to a more negative discourse prosody, indicated by collocates such as ‘failure’.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	discourse keywords, migration discourse, corpus-assisted discourse analysis
Schools and Departments:	School of English > English
Subjects:	P Language and Literature P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Depositing User:	Charlotte Taylor
Date Deposited:	28 Jun 2018 12:39
Last Modified:	01 May 2020 12:09
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/76491

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