Media, migration and human rights

Balabanova, Ekaterina; Trandafoiu, Ruxandra

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“…However, the authors working in the CDA direction , focus their efforts on political messages and political figures, the latter having received special terminological names: 'political actors' (Bossetta et al 2017;Filardo-Llamas & Boyd, 2018;Kranert, 2018;Zappettini, 2020), 'public actors' (Carta, 2013;Balabanova & Trandafoiu, 2020), 'actors' (Glynos et al, 2009), 'political agents' (Wieczorek, 2013), 'political representatives' (Karlsson & Åström, 2017), 'collective and individual agents' (Schroder, 2012), though at times these terms sound ironical, like 'national and institutional actors' (Carta & Wodak, 2015), while the addressee, to whom these messages are directed, is left on the sidewalk, away from their research attention. For instance, out of sixty-six research pieces in a four-volume edition of "Critical Discourse Analysis" (2013), published by SAGE with Wodak as an editor, none concerned a hearer, or listener, in other words, an addressee of political discourse (Wodak, 2013).…”

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Political discourse from the standpoint of the addressee

Kuznyetsova¹

2021

Cognition, Communication, Discourse

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This article is an overview of West-European and Asian linguistic discussion of the issue of the addressee as one of the key components of political discourse. It considers the concept of political discourse addressee as well as the issue of speech influence and discourse manipulation since the latter is the most important characteristic of the type of discourse under consideration. To date, actualization of the addressee in political discourse is not sufficiently studied; hence, there is a respective gap in political discourse studies. This conclusion is made upon reviewing modern trends in political discourse research in West-European and Asian linguistics, critical discourse analysis being the major and the most representative of them, with the contribution of political discourse analysis and critical applied linguistics. The overview shows that the linguistic trends listed above have contributed greatly into the study of discourse, in general, and political discourse, in particular. The article also demonstrates the results of the study of political discourse addressee as groups of voters, conducted in papers on communication theory and PR-practices and argues that such approach appears insufficient as it must be augmented by the study of the addressee in terms of cognitive linguistics. This paper concludes that an addressee of political discourse is not in the focus of modern West-European linguistics and thus requires further in-depth analysis, which can be done by applying the communicative-cognitive approach in its multimodal aspect.

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Political discourse from the standpoint of the addressee

Kuznyetsova¹

2021

Cognition, Communication, Discourse

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“…Anti-immigrant rhetoric has become prevalent across different spaces as a reaction to a large influx of displaced people crossing borders (Fotopoulos and Kaimaklioti, 2016; Heidenreich et al, 2019). What is depicted as a ‘refugee crisis’ in mainstream global media contributes to perpetuating negative discourses, racism, and hostility toward refugees (Balabanova and Trandafoiu, 2020; Kreis, 2017).…”

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Twitter-based analysis of anti-refugee discourses in Türkiye

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Elmas

Eröz

2023

Discourse & Communication

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As the number of refugees in Türkiye continues to grow, the constructed discourse of welcoming refugees with open arms has weakened, transforming the image of refugees from ‘guests’ to ‘threats’. Social media platforms are used to spread hate speech, discrimination, racism, and otherization. Drawing on the Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis approach, the present research investigates how language is used to produce online discourses in tweets about refugees in the aftermath of a major social triggering event in Türkiye. This mixed-methods study incorporated both a corpus analysis of tweets posted on Twitter over a specific period, as well as a critical discourse analysis of a randomly selected subset of 100 tweets. The findings revealed that the prevalence of discontent and frustration of the host population against refugees has turned into a discourse of discrimination, hate, and racism. Moreover, a negative portrayal of refugees was created and maintained not only through lexical choices, but also characteristics attributed to them, as well as assumptions and prejudices about them.

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‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online place-making and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey

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Korkut

Ozduzen

2020

New Media & Society

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This article argues that digital publics unleash and bolster everyday racism, creating an unregulated space where anonymity and ubiquity enable the dissemination of racist message. By creating broader visibility and wider reach of racist texts and facilitating more participation for racists, social media platforms such as Twitter normalize gendered and place-based racialization of refugees. Recently, hostility and hate became the norm in derogating the refugee identity on social media platforms. To investigate the complexity of digital racism, this article presents a unique case study on Twitter, capturing the widespread user reactions in the aftermath of the mass resettlement of Syrians in Turkey. It examines varying racialization of Syrians on the Turkish Twittersphere, using sentiment and qualitative content analyses of hashtags and mentions on Syrians, when they hit Twitter trends for Turkey for a year, first, for mundane events and, second, during the Turkish state’s occupation in Northern Syria.

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Media, migration and human rights

Cited by 5 publications

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Political discourse from the standpoint of the addressee

Political discourse from the standpoint of the addressee

Twitter-based analysis of anti-refugee discourses in Türkiye

‘Refugees are not welcome’: Digital racism, online place-making and the evolving categorization of Syrians in Turkey

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