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A comparative analysis of the keyword multicultural(ism) in French, British, German and Italian migration discourse

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posted on 2023-06-09, 13:45 authored by Melani Schröter, Marie Veniard, Caroline Taylor, Andreas Blätte
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’.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Publisher

John Benjamins

Page range

13-44

Book title

Migration and media: discourses about identities in crisis

ISBN

9789027202475

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  • English Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

Andreas Musolff, Lorella Viola

Legacy Posted Date

2018-06-28

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-06-13

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