Author, as appears in the article.: Montagut, Marta; Moragas-Fernandez, Carlota M.;
Department: Estudis de Comunicació
URV's Author/s: Montagut Calvo, Marta / Moragas Fernández, Carlota Maria
Keywords: Uk Spanish media Spain Refugiados Refugee crisis Premsa espanyola Opinió pública News Migration Metaphorical framing Metàfores Media Immigration Frame analysis Europe Critical metaphor analysis Coverage
Abstract: The European refugee crisis has a central role in media and political narratives about migration these days. By applying critical metaphor analysis, this article explores how the Spanish press framed the crisis using metaphors in 2015, 2016, and 2017. The evolution of the different ways of conceptualizing migrants and European policies shows two metaphorical frames: the dehumanization frame, where refugees are a natural disaster/mass water or objects/goods, and the humanization frame, where migrants are positively framed as travelers, but also negatively, as troublemakers. Spain as a political actor has no agency till 2016 and 2017, when it is portrayed under the living thing source domain, mainly in a negative way. It is concluded the way in which the refugee crisis is framed is in line either with EU relocation or resettlement policies and points out the connection between language and policy.
Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Medicina ii Media studies and communication Interdisciplinary research in the social sciences Información y documentación Filosofía Comunicació i informació Comunicação e informação Communication Ciencias sociales Ciências sociais aplicadas i Ciencias humanas Arquitetura e urbanismo
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: carlotamaria.moragas@urv.cat carlotamaria.moragas@urv.cat marta.montagut@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0003-3028-6663 0000-0003-3028-6663 0000-0002-0270-9983
Record's date: 2023-02-19
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/10626
Papper original source: International Journal Of Communication. 14 69-91
APA: Montagut, Marta; Moragas-Fernandez, Carlota M.; (2020). The European Refugee Crisis Discourse in the Spanish Press: Mapping Humanization and Dehumanization Frames Through Metaphors. International Journal Of Communication, 14(), 69-91
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2020
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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