Discursive reactualisations of the denomination of the “refugee” Cover Image

Les réactualisations discursives de la dénomination de « réfugié »
Discursive reactualisations of the denomination of the “refugee”

Author(s): Mária Paľová, Martina Zeleňáková
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Refugee; migrant; profiling; corpus

Summary/Abstract: The semantic description of the concept of “refugee” oscillates today between the stability of some categorization features taken from the definition of refugee under the Geneva Convention and plasticity in the discursive construction of meaning due to strong media influence. The meaning of individual phrases is analysed on a representative corpus of Slovak media discourse of 2015 from the perspective of motifs-profiles-themes.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 224-239
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French