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Article
Photographs of Refugees in Polish Daily Newspapers—Critical Discourse Analysis
Author(s)
Joanna Szylko-Kwas
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DOI:10.17265/2160-6579/2018.05.001
Affiliation(s)
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
ABSTRACT
This
paper describes the way in which the European migrant crisis is depicted in the
Polish daily press. This topic seems to be important because of the current political
situation in Poland, which presents right-wing and anti-immigrant views, and because
of the ongoing conflict concerning this matter between the Polish government and
European institutions. The analysis includes articles about refugees published in
the selected months of 2015 and 2017 in three daily newspapers presenting opposing
political sympathies. The paper employs critical discourse analysis and its discourse-historical
approach describing strategies of presenting refugees in press photography. The
analysis encompasses types of photographs, their functions, the relationship with
their captions, and most importantly, topoi which constitute the focal point when
addressing the relationship of power, knowledge, and discourse which is significant for critical discourse analysis (CDA).
KEYWORDS
migrant crisis, refugee crisis, critical discourse analysis, press photography, mediatization
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