Internally Displaced Persons in Canadian News Discourse
Although the concept of environmental refugees has been circulating for more than thirty years, not much has been written about how the displacement of people caused by environmental disasters has entered into public discourses. More specifically, within the empirical investigations into the discour...
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ftunivnapoliojs:oai:serena.unina.it:article/8580 2023-10-29T02:36:23+01:00 Internally Displaced Persons in Canadian News Discourse Mongibello, Anna 2021-11-19 application/pdf http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8580 https://doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/8580 eng eng Università degli studi di Napoli "L’Orientale" http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8580/9274 http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8580 doi:10.6093/2035-8504/8580 Copyright (c) 2021 Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal; Vol 21 No 2 (2017): The Representation of “Exceptional Migrants” in Media Discourse: The Case of Climate-induced Migration; 53-75 Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal; V. 21 N. 2 (2017): The Representation of “Exceptional Migrants” in Media Discourse: The Case of Climate-induced Migration; 53-75 2035-8504 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Articolo Peer-reviewed 2021 ftunivnapoliojs https://doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/8580 2023-10-05T08:39:48Z Although the concept of environmental refugees has been circulating for more than thirty years, not much has been written about how the displacement of people caused by environmental disasters has entered into public discourses. More specifically, within the empirical investigations into the discourses on environmental displacement, the phenomenon of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) moving inside the borders of their own countries as an effect of disasters has received little critical attention with respect to how it is framed.The present article explores the discursive constructions of IDPs in Canadian news discourse which refer to the destructive 2016 Alberta fire in Fort McMurray, the heart of the tar sands region. Thus, a corpus of news reports is analysed in a discourse-analytical perspective with the intent of identifying specific discursive strategies, frames and patterns in the representation of the social actors within newspaper narratives. The analysis shows that the representations of IDPs in the corpus under investigation are characterized by different patterns of language choice compared to those emerging from the discourses on climate refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in general, evident in previous studies. In the end, what becomes also apparent is that nomination strategies are connected to specific ideologies in discourse, on the basis of which the correlation between the tar sands and the fire is either omitted or mildly unveiled. Although the concept of environmental refugees has been circulating for more than thirty years, not much has been written about how the displacement of people caused by environmental disasters has entered into public discourses. More specifically, within the empirical investigations into the discourses on environmental displacement, the phenomenon of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) moving inside the borders of their own countries as an effect of disasters has received little critical attention with respect to how it is framed.The present article explores ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Fort McMurray SeReNa (System for electronic peer-Reviewed journals @ university of Naples) |
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Although the concept of environmental refugees has been circulating for more than thirty years, not much has been written about how the displacement of people caused by environmental disasters has entered into public discourses. More specifically, within the empirical investigations into the discourses on environmental displacement, the phenomenon of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) moving inside the borders of their own countries as an effect of disasters has received little critical attention with respect to how it is framed.The present article explores the discursive constructions of IDPs in Canadian news discourse which refer to the destructive 2016 Alberta fire in Fort McMurray, the heart of the tar sands region. Thus, a corpus of news reports is analysed in a discourse-analytical perspective with the intent of identifying specific discursive strategies, frames and patterns in the representation of the social actors within newspaper narratives. The analysis shows that the representations of IDPs in the corpus under investigation are characterized by different patterns of language choice compared to those emerging from the discourses on climate refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in general, evident in previous studies. In the end, what becomes also apparent is that nomination strategies are connected to specific ideologies in discourse, on the basis of which the correlation between the tar sands and the fire is either omitted or mildly unveiled. Although the concept of environmental refugees has been circulating for more than thirty years, not much has been written about how the displacement of people caused by environmental disasters has entered into public discourses. More specifically, within the empirical investigations into the discourses on environmental displacement, the phenomenon of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) moving inside the borders of their own countries as an effect of disasters has received little critical attention with respect to how it is framed.The present article explores ... |
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Internally Displaced Persons in Canadian News Discourse |
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Internally Displaced Persons in Canadian News Discourse |
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Università degli studi di Napoli "L’Orientale" |
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Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal; Vol 21 No 2 (2017): The Representation of “Exceptional Migrants” in Media Discourse: The Case of Climate-induced Migration; 53-75 Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal; V. 21 N. 2 (2017): The Representation of “Exceptional Migrants” in Media Discourse: The Case of Climate-induced Migration; 53-75 2035-8504 |
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Copyright (c) 2021 Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal |
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