Discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press, 1996-2006
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ESRC
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Project Description
Refugees and asylum seekers seeking entry into the
UK have become the focus of intense media and political discussion. On this
project, we explore the discourses surrounding these groups, examining both how
that discourse has evolved and how it has constructed both groups. In doing so,
we are seeking to meet a methodological objective: the marriage of the broadly
quantitative methodology of corpus linguistics with the traditionally
qualitative methods of critical discourse analysis. Our intention is to both
better account for the construction of the identities of refugees and asylum
seekers in the UK press while simultaneously affirming, amending or challenging
past work undertaken on media representations of both groups.
The main aims of the project are:
1.
To further the contribution of corpus
linguistics to CDA by showing how corpora can play an important role in
critical social research.
2.
To achieve that by an exploration of
the construction of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press.
3.
To explore the discursive construction
of the groups in focus both synchronically and diachronically over the period
1996-2006, using multiple UK news sources, which will allow as to examine a
range of contrasts (e.g. regional vs. national; tabloid vs. broadsheet).
4.
To explore the possible relations between
discourses surrounding refugees/asylum seekers and van Dijk's
(1987) description of racist discourses.
5.
To reflect critically upon aim (1) by
mapping out the possible uses of corpora in CDA while considering what corpora
cannot achieve, and hence what marriage between corpus and non-corpus based
approaches may be best for CDA.
Project
Outputs: Publications and presentations directly reporting on the project
1. Publications
Baker, P., Gabrielatos C., Khosravinik,
M., Krzyzanowski, M., McEnery, T. & Wodak, R.
(2008). A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis
and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in
the UK press. Discourse & Society 19(3), 273-305. [Also online]
Gabrielatos, C. & Baker, P. (2008).
Fleeing, sneaking, flooding: A corpus analysis of discursive constructions of
refugees and asylum seekers in the UK Press 1996-2005. Journal of English
Linguistics 36(1), 5-38.
Gabrielatos,
C. (2007). Selecting query terms to build a specialised corpus from a
restricted-access database. ICAME
Journal, 31, 5-43. [Also online]
KhosraviNik, M. (forthcoming) Actor descriptions, action
attributions and argumentation: Towards a systematization of CDA analytical
categories in representation of social groups. Journal of Critical Discourse Studies.
KhosraviNik, M. (2010, forthcoming). The representation of
refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in British newspapers: A Critical
Discourse Analysis. Journal of Language and Politics, 9(1).
KhosraviNik, M. (2009). The representation of refugees, asylum
seekers and immigrants in British newspapers during the Balkan conflict (1999)
and the British general election (2005). Discourse & Society, 20(4), 477-498.
KhosraviNik, M. (2008). British newspapers and the
representation of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants between 1996 and
2006. Centre for Language in Social Life Working Papers. Lancaster
University. [Online].
2. Conference papers
Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C. & McEnery, T. (2008). Using collocational profiling to investigate the construction of
refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the UK press. 7th
Conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2008),
Brigham Young University,
Provo, Utah, 13-15 March 2008. [Abstract, pp. 18-19 |
Slides]
Baker, P., McEnery,
T. & Gabrielatos, C. (2007). Using collocation analysis to reveal the
construction of minority groups: The case of refugees, asylum seekers and
immigrants in the UK press. Paper given at Corpus Linguistics 2007, University
of Birmingham, 28-30 July 2007. [Abstract and slides available online]
Gabrielatos, C. & Baker, P. (2006).
Representation of refugees and asylum seekers in UK newspapers: Towards a
corpus-based analysis. Paper given at the Joint Annual Meeting of the British
Association for Applied Linguistics and the Irish Association for Applied
Linguistics, University College, Cork, Ireland, 7-9 September 2006. (Abstract and slides available online).
Gabrielatos, C. & Baker, P. (2006).
Representation of refugees and asylum seekers in UK newspapers: Towards a
corpus-based comparison of the stance of tabloids and broadsheets. Paper given
at the First International Conference: Critical Approaches to Discourse
Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD 2006),
University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 29-30 June 2006. [Abstract and slides available online].
KhosraviNik, M. (2008). Actors, actions and argumentation:
Towards a systematization of CDA analytical categories in representation of
social actors. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines
Conference (CADAAD 2008. University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, July
10-12, 2008.
KhosraviNik, M. (2007). Actor, action, argumentation: Towards
an amalgamation of CDA methodological categories in representations of social
actors. The Second Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics
and Language Teaching (LAEL PG 2007). Lancaster University, July 5, 2007.
3. Invited talks
Baker, P. (2008). Fleeing, sneaking, flooding: a corpus analysis of discursive
constructions of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK Press 1996-2005.
University of Huddersfield, 23 January 2008.
Baker, P. (2007). Flooding, crawling,
sneaking: A corpus analysis of discursive constructions of refugees and asylum
seekers in the UK Press 1995-2006. University of Liverpool, 17th October 2007.
Baker, P. & Gabrielatos, C. (2009). Construction of refugees and asylum seekers in British
newspapers, 1996-2005: A corpus-based approach. Language Ideology
and Power Research Group (LIP)
Special Symposium: “The politics of exclusion” –
investigating issues of racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia…, 9 February 2009. [Abstract and slides
available online].
Gabrielatos, C. (2008). Collocational
analysis as a gateway to critical discourse analysis: The case of the
construction of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the UK press.
English Language Institute, University of Michigan, 10 March 2008.
Gabrielatos, C. (2008). Compiling
topic-specific corpora from limited-access online databases. Corpus Linguistics Advanced Research Education
and Training (CLARET). Lancaster University, 31 March 2008. [Abstract
and slides available online].
4. Research group presentations
Gabrielatos, C. (2007). Representation of refugees and asylum seekers in UK newspapers,
1996-2005: Report on the corpus-based analysis. Joint meeting of the Corpus
Research Group (CRG) and the Language Ideology and Power
Research Group (LIP), Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster
University, 15
January 2007.
Gabrielatos, C. (2006). Selecting query
terms to build a specialised corpus from a well-defined, limited-access
database. Meeting of the Corpus Research Group
(CRG), Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK, 30 October 2006.
Gabrielatos, C. (2006). Towards
quantifying 'quality' in the press: Comparing the stance of UK broadsheets and
tabloids towards refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants. Paper given at the
joint meeting of the Corpus Research
Group (CRG) and Language,
Ideology and Power Research Group (LIP), Department of Linguistics and
English Language, Lancaster University, UK, 13 June 2006. [Abstract and slides available online].
KhosraviNik, M. (2007). Representation
of refugees and asylum seekers in UK newspapers, 1996-2005: Report on the CDA
analysis. Joint meeting of the Corpus Research Group (CRG) and the Language Ideology
and Power Research Group (LIP), Department of Linguistics and English Language,
Lancaster University, 15 Januray
2007.
Impact: Publications making use of
project outputs
Crush,
J. & Ramachandran, S. (2009). Xenophobia, international migration and human
development. United Nations
Development Programme, Human Development Reports, Research Paper 2009/47.
[Also online]
Culpeper, J. (2009). Keyness: Words, parts-of-speech and semantic categories in the character-talk of
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, 14(1): 29-59.
Enright, M. (2009). Choice,
culture and the politics of belonging: The emerging law of forced and arranged
marriage.
Modern Law Review, 72(3):
331-359.
Fairclough, N. (2009). A dialectical-relational
approach to critical discourse analysis in social research. In R. Wodak & M. Meyer (Eds.), Methods
for Critical Discourse Analysis, 2nd edition, 162-186.
Gooberman-Hill, R., French, M., Dieppe, P. & Hawker, G. (2009). Expressing pain and fatigue: A new method of analysis
to explore differences in osteoarthritis experience. Arthritis Care & Research, 61(3):
353-360.
Hiruy, K. (2009). Finding home far
away from home: Place attachment, place-identity, belonging and resettlement
among African-Australians in Hobart. Master’s Dissertation,
University of Tasmania. [Online]
Krzyzanowski, M. & Wodak, R. (2008). The Politics of
Exclusion: Debating Migration in Austria. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction
Publishers.
Krzyzanowski, M. & Wodak, R. (2008). Migration und Rassismus in Österreich. In: B. Gomes, A.
Hofbauer, W. Schicho & A. Sonderegger (Eds.). Rassismus. Beiträge
zu einem vielgesichtigen Phänomen. (Serie GEP: Gesellschaft,
Entwicklung, Politik). Wien:
Mandelbaum, 257-279.
Kwon, W., Clarke, I. & Wodak, R.
(2009).Organizational decision-making, discourse, and power: Integrating across
contexts and scales. Discourse &
Communication, 3(3): 273-302.
Lawton, R. (2008). Language policy and ideology in the United States: A
critical analysis of ‘English Only’ discourse. In M. KhosraviNik & A. Polyzou (Eds.), Papers from the Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in
Linguistics & Language Teaching, Vol. 2: Papers from LAEL PG 2007.
Lancaster University.
Marchi, A. & Taylor,
C. (2009). Establishing the EU: The representation of Europe in the
press in 1993 and 2005. In: A.H. Jucker, D. Schreier & M. Hundt (Eds.), Corpora:
Pragmatics and Discourse, Papers from the 29th International Conference on
English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 29), 203-226. Rodopi.
Mautner, G. (2009). Checks and balances: How corpus linguistics can contribute
to CDA. In R. Wodak & M. Meyer (Eds.), Methods
for Critical Discourse Analysis, 2nd edition, 122-143.
May, C. (2009). Images of Capitalism in North and
South. In: Proceedings of the ECPR
General Conference, Potsdam/Germany, 12 September 2009. [Online]
May, C. (2009). Structural alignment: Changing
orders in North and South. In: Proceedings
of the 50th ISA Annual Convention, Feb 15, 2009, New York. [Online]
Sidiropoulou, M. (2008). The translator as social scientist: the T.E.G.MA compilation
project. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Athens
International Conference on Translation and Interpretation, Hellenic American
Union, 10-11 October 2008. [Online]
Taylor, C. (2009). The representation of immigrants
in the Italian press. Occasional Papers, 21/2009. Siena: University of
Siena. [Online]
Wodak,
R. (2008). ‘Us’ and ‘Them’: Inclusion/Exclusion –
Discrimination via Discourse. In: G. Delanty, R.
Wodak & P.R. Jones (Eds.) Identity, Belonging, Migration. Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press, 54-78.
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