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Discours médiatiques sur l’immigration
Media Speeches on Immigration

Author(s): Snejana Popova
Subject(s): Media studies, Evaluation research, Migration Studies
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: media; immigration; semantic field; image; media discourse; political discourse;

Summary/Abstract: This article presents the results of a comparative study of media discourses on the immigration. The study reflects a concrete event context (2006): Bulgaria awaits its entrance to the EU; a more restrictive law on immigration is voted in France; in several countries of Western Europe some restrictive measures towards immigration are put to practice. The results of the linguistic study reveal two different images of immigration within the two media studied. At the same time, an in depth reading of the same results reveal a common point – the media of the two countries act according to the political requirements.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 21+22
  • Page Range: 194-199
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: French