Flüchtlinge, Migranten, Asylanten, Asyl(be)werber? – Eine Analyse ihrer Benennungen im deutschsprachigen Mediendiskurs 2015/16 / Flüchtlinge, Migranten, Asylanten, Asyl(be)werber – An Analysis of their Naming in German Media Discourse 2015/16)
DOI: 10.23817/lingtreff.14-4 (published online: 2019-06-27)
Keywords: migration, refugee, discourse, media discourse, linguistic discourse analysis
Guided by Discourse Linguistics and Linguistic Discourse Analysis, the aim of this article is to provide a corpus-based analysis of names for people who have moved from Africa and Asia to Europe since 2015 to find a new home here. Quantitative investigations should detect statistical peculiarities of lexemes that are used for explicit designation. First of all, the usage of the word Flüchtling should be determined by means of qualitative investigations. In the first place, explicit themes are taken into account, which in many cases point to the controversial nature of the use of the word. All in all, it is the knowledge, the ways of thinking and the evaluations conveyed by the analyzed lexemes that should be made transparent.
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