Who deserves compassion? A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of the discursive construction of Syrian refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and migrants in UK newspaper reports published between October 2014 and September 2016
Background: A body of research exists that investigates the representation of migrant populations in news media texts. This study extends the scope of inquiry towards the capacity for the discursive construction of social actors to shape readers’ emotional and cognitive responses of compassion. Ai...
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| Format: | Thesis (University of Nottingham only) |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/60949/ |