A Corpus Analysis of Discursive Constructions of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK Press, 1996-2005
A Corpus Analysis of Discursive Constructions of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK Press, 1996-2005
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1996-2005 年英国媒体关于难民和寻求庇护者的话语结构的语料库分析
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2008
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Paul Baker
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Costas Gabrielatos;Paul Baker
本文探讨了话语建设的难民和寻求庇护者（在较小程度上移民和移民）在1.4亿字的语料库，英国新闻界的文章发表于1996年和2005年之间。以语料库为基础的方法，数据进行分析，不仅作为一个整体，而且关于共时变化，进行一致性分析的关键字发生在小报和大报，和历时变化，虽然主要是从一个不寻常的角度，通过调查一致的搭配和频率的特定术语随着时间的推移。分析指出了一些（主要是负面的）代表性类别，无意义术语的存在和发展（例如，非法难民），以及传媒混淆和混淆所研究的四个名词的定义。本文最后批判性地讨论了在何种程度上基于语料库的方法论立场可以告知批评话语分析。1
This paper examines the discursive construction of refugees and asylum seekers (and to a lesser extent immigrants and migrants) in a 140-million-word corpus of UK press articles published between 1996 and 2005. Taking a corpus-based approach, the data were analyzed not only as a whole, but also with regard to synchronic variation, by carrying out concordance analyses of keywords which occurred within tabloid and broadsheet newspapers, and diachronic change, albeit mainly approached from an unusual angle, by investigating consistent collocates and frequencies of specific terms over time. The analyses point to a number of (mainly negative) categories of representation, the existence and development of nonsensical terms (e.g., illegal refugee), and media confusion and conflation of definitions of the four terms under examination. The paper concludes by critically discussing the extent to which a corpus-based methodological stance can inform critical discourse analysis. 1