Borders, walls and fences in Hungarian press discourse on migration in 2015

Part 2

Authors

  • Roberta Rada Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Germanisztikai Intézet, Német Nyelvoktató és Szakdidaktikai Tanszék

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2023.1.21

Keywords:

discourse, linguistic discourse analysis, migration, border, conceptualization

Abstract

Borders between countries and states or passing through them has been a pivotal point in the Hungarian media discourse on migration since 2015. The aim of this study is to primarily rely on the relevant German linguistics literature and with the help of linguistic tools to reveal which patterns of knowledge, thinking and values were conveyed in the Hungarian-language press discourse on migration on borders and border protection in 2015. The theoretical and methodological background of the study is provided by descriptive linguistic discourse analysis, the analyses focus on vocabulary units. The research corpus is a thematic, electronic corpus that includes nearly 5 000 online press texts published in Hungary. The quantitative and qualitative analyses carried out on the corpus reveal patterns of language use of the words border, border fence and border closure in the examined discourse, from which it can be deduced how Hungarian society thinks about the concepts denoted by the words and how it relates to their candidates.

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Published

2023-06-01

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Section

Tanulmányok