Serafis, Dimitris, Zappettini, Franco 
ORCID: 0000-0001-7049-4454 and Assimakopoulos, Stavros
(2023)
The Institutionalization of Hatred Politics in the Mediterranean: Studying Corpora of Online News Portals During the European ‘Refugee Crisis’.
Topoi, 42 (2).
pp. 651-670.
Abstract
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>This paper aims to study the argumentative basis on which the prevention of migration is justified and hatred politics is institutionalised in three Mediterranean settings, namely Greece, Malta, and Italy, that were at the centre of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ in 2015–2017. Following the rubric of corpus-assisted Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), we trace (a) the main meaningful patterns, and (b) discursive and argumentation strategies (topoi) in three balanced corpora of mainstream news portals aligned with centre-right and centre-left political views. Among our main findings, the mobilisation of migrant populations is construed as an extremely polarised issue both in national and EU contexts and claims in favour of its prevention are justified on topoi of <jats:italic>danger/threat</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>numbers</jats:italic> and <jats:italic>burdening</jats:italic>/<jats:italic>weighing down</jats:italic>.</jats:p>
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Hatred, Institutionalization, 'Refugee crisis', Mediterranean, Topoi, argumentation, Corpus-assisted critical discourse studies |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of the Arts |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2023 08:59 |
| Last Modified: | 12 May 2023 07:17 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11245-023-09890-w |
| Open Access URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11245-0... |
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| URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3168364 |
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