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Title: Crossing borders on the Balkan route: representation of migration in online news
Vol. 2, 2017, pp. 53-70.
DOI: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.005
Author: Svetlana Nedelcheva
About the author: Svetlana Nedelcheva is an Associate professor of English linguistics at Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen, Department of English Studies. She has published two monographs Cognitive Interpretation of the English Preposition ON and Space, Time and Human Experience: A Cognitive View on English and Bulgarian Prepositions, two course books English Morphology – Traditional and Cognitive Perspective and Essential English Syntax for University Students, and research articles in the field of cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics, translation studies and foreign language teaching. She has specialized in a number of universities, e.g., the University of Bangor, UK (Post-Doctoral Research Program) and Georgetown University, USA (as a Fulbright researcher).
e-mail: s.nedelcheva@shu.bg
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-8758
Citation (APA style): Nedelcheva, S. (2017). Crossing borders on the Balkan route: representation of migration in online news. Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT, 2, 53-70. doi: 10.46687/SILC.2017.v02.005
Link: https://silc.fhn-shu.com/images/issues/2017/SILC_2017_2_053_070_18_EN.pdf
Abstract: This research studies the headlines representing migrants along the Balkan route in Bulgarian online news during the “migrant crisis” of 2015/2016, as well as the pictorial images that immediately follow the headlines. It compares the verbal and the visual representation of migrants and applies both critical discourse analysis and multimodal analysis. The study uses the term ‘text’ in a wider sense including both the verbal text and the pictorial display of migrants’ social activities.
The headlines develop two contradicting images of the migrants which are also reflected in the pictures. One of them is the image of poor and distressed people running away from the war in their home country. Europe for them is the Promised Land and they are presented with sympathy and compassion. The other image of the migrants is that of a natural disaster which cannot be stopped by country borders and threatens the stability on the continent.
Key words: migrants, headlines, multimodality, conceptual metaphors, visual representation
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