KRITIČKA ANALIZA DISKURSA O MIGRANTSKOJ KRIZI U BRITANSKIM MEDIJIMA

Abstract

The paper presents a Critical Discourse Analysis of migrant crisis in the British daily newspapers The Daily Mail, The Guardian, and The Sun. The primary aim of the research is to apply this approach to three topic-related narratives so as to observe the relationship between ideology, power and social actors in newspaper discourse. The articles are first analysed intratextually, at the level of macro- and microstructure, and then intertextually in order to compare their similarities and differences. The results of the research show that, regardless of their authors’ diametrically opposite attitudes, the articles jointly construct the image of, on the one hand, migrant crisis-induced hysteria and, on the other, migrants as actively negative or passive social actors. Moreover, the analysis of the individual narrative structures also reveals similarities in their functions (i.e. reporting and persuading), language means (primarily lexical and syntactic) and rhetorical devices (‘the number game’, referential strategies, and figures of speech). The research implicitly poses the question of whether these texts could have been written differently and, if so, how it would have reflected on the ideological restructuring of the topic. Basing our findings on qualitative method, we conclude that newspaper narratives represent a unique battleground where different ideologies clash through language. Therefore, the given textual and discursive practices.