28.3274, Calls: Discourse Analysis / Anglistica (Jrnl)

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Subject: 28.3274, Calls: Discourse Analysis / Anglistica (Jrnl)

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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 13:41:32
From: Katherine E. Russo [kerusso at unior.it]
Subject: Discourse Analysis / Anglistica (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Anglistica 


Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 15-Nov-2017 

The Representation of ''Exceptional Migrants'' in Media Discourse: 
The Case of Climate-induced Migration

Editors:
Katherine E. Russo (Università degli Studi di Napoli ''L'Orientale'')
Ruth Wodak (Lancaster University)

Description:
One of the main findings of recent debates on the representation of migration
in the media is that the latter have increased their 'affective labour',
triggering fear, anxiety, vulnerability and alarm about/towards transnational
mobility. This ''politics of fear'' seems to have enormously contributed to
the media coverage of climate-induced migrants, whose stories are often framed
in apocalyptic, exceptional and alarming tones and thus have a much higher
chance of making it in to the headlines than other structural processes of
discrimination (Wodak 2015). Therefore, the role of affective factors in
fueling media interventions and shaping the representation of climate-induced
migration should not be underestimated (Baldwin 2016; Bettini 2013; Reisigl
and Wodak 2001; Russo 2017). Indeed, traditional and new media play crucial
roles, exercising a strong impact on community relations and matters of
hospitality. As Teun van Dijk argued in his seminal work on news and social
cognition, people rely heavily on media accounts for their knowledge, beliefs
and opinions, which in turn form socially shared knowledge and limited
interpretative repertoires (1993). Such limited ''repertoires'' may condition
the social apprehension and response to climate-induced migration, hindering
the possibility of transnational solidarity (Blommaert 2012, 12). Yet while
there is a substantial and long-standing body of research on the
representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in newspaper
discourse, the media representation of climate-induced migration remains
somehow uncharted. 

We invite critical, theoretical and discourse-analytical papers investigating
different genres operating in the context of ''old and new'' media. 

Possible areas of inquiry may include, but are not limited to:
- Critical Discourse Studies
- Integrated Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies Approaches
- Communication Studies
- Affect Studies
- Comparative Studies
- Rhetorics 
- (New) Racisms 
- Exceptional Migrant Narratives
- Climate-induced migrants and Debates about Climate Change 
- Denial of Climate Change and the Far-Right/Right-wing Populism
- Media Coverage of Policy Decisions

Articles, books for review, images should be sent to the editors and cc to
anglistica at unior.it.
All material submitted for consideration must comply with the Anglistica AION
guidelines.

Deadline for abstracts:
15 October 2017
Deadline for completed articles
15 March 2018
Carmen Gallo
Send articles to the following addresses:
kerusso at unior.it 
CC: anglistica at unior.it




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