Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.22572/mi.27.1.1
Migration Discourse in Croatian News Media
Katja Dobrić Basaneže
orcid.org/0000-0002-0261-6015
; Faculty of Law
Paulina Ostojić
orcid.org/0000-0002-7990-8956
; Law office Sandra Ivić
Abstract
This paper investigates migration discourse in Croatian news media by combining corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis approach. It first focuses
on the phraseological and grammatical context of the terms migrant, imigrant, izbjeglica and azilant, whereupon it investigates the background of such linguistic behaviour. The latter is examined by means of critical discourse analysis, hence, by taking into account the non-linguistic context. This includes the analysis of historical, cultural and political context or sometimes even the relevant
case law and standards of protection guaranteed in international humanitarian and human rights law. Results of the study suggest that discrimination does not
occur only in the most obvious acts of inhuman treatment, such as pushbacks, but also in the language the media use when reporting on migration process.
Keywords
corpus linguistics; critical discourse analysis; discrimination; media; migration crisis
Hrčak ID:
259053
URI
Publication date:
18.6.2021.
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