A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of the Discursive Representation of Immigration in the EU Referendum Debate

Autor/in	Aluthman, Ebtisam Saleh
Titel	A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of the Discursive Representation of Immigration in the EU Referendum Debate
Quelle	In: Arab World English Journal, 9 (2018) 4, S.19-38 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Aluthman, Ebtisam Saleh)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2229-9327
Schlagwörter	Public Policy; Discourse Analysis; Immigration; Computational Linguistics; Phrase Structure; Information Retrieval; Political Attitudes; Electronic Publishing; Social Media; Computer Mediated Communication; Heuristics; Socioeconomic Influences; Immigrants; Language Usage; Foreign Countries; Semantics; Negative Attitudes; Positive Attitudes; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Ordnung; Diskursanalyse; Linguistics; Computerlinguistik; Phrasenstruktur; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Elektronisches Publizieren; Soziale Medien; Computerkonferenz; Heuristik; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Sprachgebrauch; Ausland; Semantik; Negative Fixierung; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper presents a critical account of the representation of immigration in the Brexit corpus-- a collective corpus of 108,452,923 words compiled mostly from blogs, tweets, and daily news related to Brexit debate. The study follows the methodological synergy approach proposed by Baker et al. (2008), a heuristic methodological approach that combines methods of discourse analysis and corpus-assisted statistical tools including keyword, collocation, and concordance analysis. Drawing on this methodological synergy approach, the investigation yields significant findings contextualized within the socio-economic-political context of the European Union (EU) leave referendum to trace how the issue of immigration is represented in the discourses of the Remain and Leave campaigns. The frequency results show that immigration is one of the most salient topics in the Brexit corpus. Concordance analysis of the word "immigrants" and collocation investigation of the word "immigration" reveal opposing attitudes toward immigration in the EU referendum debate. The analysis uncovers negative attitudes toward the uncontrolled flow of immigrants from other EU countries and public concerns about immigrants' negative impacts on wages, education, and health services. Other findings reveal positive attitudes toward immigrants emphasizing their positive contributions to the UK economy. The study concludes with an argument of the significant association between the political and socio-economic ideologies of a particular society and the language communicated in its media. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01