Discourses of Forced Migrations in the Media: A Triangulated Approach to the “European Refugee Crisis” (Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics)

This book adopts a triangulated approach to explore the complexity of migration discourses, bringing together argumentation analysis and corpus linguistics to the study of the “European refugee” crisis. Drawing on a corpus with data from across British, Polish, and Spanish newspapers, Zawadzka-Paluektau explores how migration from Asia and Africa to Europe over the 2015-2018 period was conceptualized as a period of crisis for Europe.The volume makes the case for a triangulated approach to understanding these dynamics more fully with its combination of robust quantitative corpus-based studies and richly detailed qualitative discourse analysis.Zawadzka-Paluektau uses this perspective to draw readers’ attention to recurring patterns in how refugees were represented in the European press across geographic contexts but also differences owing to extra-linguistic factors, including historical, cultural, and sociopolitical factors.In light of growing forced displacement and migration “crises”