<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>One of the major functions newspapers have is that of (re)presenting reality for their readers and thus explain events and promote specific values; newspapers are multimodal texts, which resort both to language and images to convey their message. The paper analyses a British and a North American newspaper article and has two aims. Firstly, to investigate the strategies used by journalists to represent immigrants in a positive way and, secondly, to draw a comparative analysis between the articles in terms of these strategies. The theoretical part defines the concept of racism and the ways in which it is nowadays expressed and lists some of the strategies that are frequently used to present immigrants (such as topic, referential strategies, intensifying, extensivization, victimization, personalization, voices heard, argumentation, etc.) with the use of pictures. The second part identifies strategies used in these two articles. The conclusions present a comparison between them in terms of similarities (values upheld, type of argumentation) and differences (intensification and nomination strategies, quotation patterns).</p></abstract>

One of the major functions newspapers have is that of (re)presenting reality for their readers and thus explain events and promote specific values; newspapers are multimodal texts, which resort both to language and images to convey their message. The paper analyses a British and a North American newspaper article and has two aims. Firstly, to investigate the strategies used by journalists to represent immigrants in a positive way and, secondly, to draw a comparative analysis between the articles in terms of these strategies. The theoretical part defines the concept of racism and the ways in which it is nowadays expressed and lists some of the strategies that are frequently used to present immigrants (such as topic, referential strategies, intensifying, extensivization, victimization, personalization, voices heard, argumentation, etc.) with the use of pictures. The second part identifies strategies used in these two articles. The conclusions present a comparison between them in terms of similarities (values upheld, type of argumentation) and differences (intensification and nomination strategies, quotation patterns).

Representation of Immigrants in British and American Newspapers

Department of Literature and Cultural Studies

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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One of the major functions newspapers have is that of (re)presenting reality for their readers and thus explain events and promote specific values; newspapers...

Representation of Immigrants in British and American Newspapers

Publié en ligne: 25 févr. 2019

Pages: 129 - 140

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2018-0018

Mots clés
immigrants, racism, linguistic strategies, pictures

© 2018 Gabriela Chefneux, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Representation of Immigrants in British and American Newspapers

Publié en ligne: 25 févr. 2019

Pages: 129 - 140

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ausp-2018-0018

Mots clésimmigrants, racism, linguistic strategies, pictures

© 2018 Gabriela Chefneux, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
immigrants, racism, linguistic strategies, pictures