CHOVANEC, Jan. The othering of Roma migrants in British and Czech online news discussion forums. In Chovanec Jan and Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska (eds.). Representing the Other in European Media Discourses. 1st ed. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2017, p. 235–258. DAPSAC. ISBN 978-90-272-0665-7. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.74.11cho.
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Original name The othering of Roma migrants in British and Czech online news discussion forums
Authors CHOVANEC, Jan.
Edition 1. vyd. Amsterdam and Philadelphia, Representing the Other in European Media Discourses, p. 235–258, 24 pp. DAPSAC, 2017.
Publisher John Benjamins
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Original language English
Type of outcome Chapter(s) of a specialized book
Field of Study 60203 Linguistics
Country of publisher Netherlands
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form printed version "print"
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Organization unit Faculty of Arts
ISBN 978-90-272-0665-7
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.74.11cho
Keywords (in Czech) diskuzní fórum; jinakost; diskurz a imigrace; kritická analýza diskurzu; Romové; česká média
Keywords in English discussion forum; othering; immigration discourse; prejudicial discourse; critical discourse analysis; the Roma
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Abstract
The article addresses the discursive process of othering in online news discussion forums. It is based on a comparative analysis of data from reader comments in British and Czech online newspapers on the topic of recent Roma immigration to the United Kingdom. Applying the discourse historical and the cognitive-pragmatic approaches to CDA, the analysis identifies several common patterns in the two data sets. The first similarity concerns the central importance of place, with the theme of relocation being very prominent. The second point involves the role that intertextual quotations from popular culture play in activating the commenters’ search for relevant, implicitly communicated meanings. Finally, attention is paid to extensive narrativization of reader comments that contain elaborate discursive scripts of othering. It is argued that these strategies not only establish highly polarized collective identity of the ingroup but also postulate an absolute incompatibility between the ingroup and the outgroup. These extreme forms of differentiation appear to be particularly salient in discriminatory discourse involving the Roma.
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GA16-05484S, research and development projectName: Diskurzní konstrukce jinakosti v mediálním a postmediálním prostoru
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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