Published 2015
“…This study uses
Van Leeuwen‟s (2008) sociological categories of discourse, namely role allocation,
genericisation and specification, assimilation, association, indetermination, and
identification, as well as Lakoff and Johnson‟s (2003) conceptual metaphor theory to
examine the representation of Syrian refugees in the online media news reports of
both their host and non-host countries.
Corpus linguistics is used to ensure that the
results are generalizable, valid, and impartial. …”
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