REPRESENTING MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES AS “OTHERS” IN THE ROMANIAN ONLINE MEDIA
REPRESENTING MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES AS “OTHERS” IN THE ROMANIAN ONLINE MEDIA
Author(s): Valentina Marinescu, Ecaterina BalicaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Media studies, Applied Linguistics, Migration Studies, Translation Studies
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: refugees; migrants; mass media; discourse; representation;
Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the Romanian media’s headlines coverage of the 2016 refugee crisis. The sample used in the study included all the articles identified in the online media that dealt with the refugee crisis and were published between June 2015 and October 2016. Our results showed that the vocabulary used in the headlines was very simple, without internal variations. Also, the articles included in our sample had appealed less to “primary defining terms for the situation”, being as such less normative in approaching the topic of interest and more emotional in their approach to the issue.
Journal: Synergies in Communication
- Issue Year: 1/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 182-191
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English