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ZIOGAS, ILIAS (2017)

Multimodal representation of migrants as others: Deconstructing their portayal as victims and criminals in a sample from the French and Greek press

Master thesis | International Relations (MA)

This thesis is analysing the main linguistic and visual characteristics of refugees and migrants represented in a selected number of printed media from France and Greece in the context of the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe which started in 2015. Based on the postulates of Multimodal Critical Discourse analysis and van Leeuwen’s (2008) model of visual and verbal representation of social actors, news items will be deconstructed in order to demonstrate to what extent their discourse on migration is constructed in a negative way around the theme of otherness. Finally similarities and differences between the selected news outlets and the countries will be discussed

Europe

Migrants

Multimodal critical discourse analysis

French News

Greek News

visual representation of social actors

Author

ZIOGAS, ILIAS

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

International Studies

Supervisors

Schrover, M.L.J.C.

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en