Tesis (Lengua Española, Lingüística y Teoría de la Literatura)

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    The "european refugee crisis" through a media lens. A cross-national study into press representations of displaced people combining corpus linguistics and argumentation analysis
    (2024-05-13) Zawadzka Paluektau, Natalia; Biel, Lucja; Fuentes Rodríguez, Catalina; González Sanz, Marina; Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Lengua Española, Lingüística y Teoría de la Literatura
    The aim of the investigation is to contribute to the field of research on discourses surrounding the “European refugee crisis” by exploring how people migrating from Asia and Africa to Europe between 2015 and 2018 were represented in British, Polish, and Spanish newspapers. To this end, it applies a triangulation of two methodologies, argumentation analysis and corpus linguistics, to a corpus of press articles of over six million tokens. The investigation departs from the assumption that a study of news should account for the issues involved in its creation and reception in the given historical and sociopolitical context. Hence, it first explores the relationship between media exposure and the audiences' perception of the world as well as sheds some light on the factors influencing media message programming. Next, it looks at the historical and sociopolitical processes which might have contributed to shaping the present-day responses to immigration of the three discourse communities under the investigation. Investigating these aspects is considered to be a complementary source of hypotheses and insights which might help illuminate and support findings of the subsequent discourse analysis. The analysis follows several steps. First, tools associated with corpus linguistics are employed to conduct a collocation analysis of the highest-frequency terms denoting the displaced people, a wordlist analysis, and a more detailed examination of the most prominent trends revealed as a result of the preceding steps, using concordance and collocation analyses. Second, an analysis of argumentation is conducted on a downsampled portion of the corpus. Third, a special analytical procedure is adopted to systematically retrieve and examine migration metaphors which are common in the corpus. The results show that the 2015-2018 migrations were predominantly conceptualised in terms of a crisis for Europe, whereas the displaced people tended to be discursively deprived of the right to seek asylum via a wide range of delegitimising linguistic strategies. This overarching trend is largely consistent across the three language subcorpora, with some variation in the frequencies of its particular linguistic realisations. Similarly, while both main analytical approaches point towards this general conclusion, they sometimes differ in the emphasis they put on specific findings, or contribute findings which are in line with the general picture, but which have not been observed using the other methodology. This provides evidence of the usefulness of the methodological triangulation applied to this analysis. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the implications of the way in which the newspapers of Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom construe migrations and their principal protagonists, particularly with respect to its impact on the safety and well-being of the displaced people.