This paper is a cross-linguistic corpus-assisted discourse study of the representation of
migrants in the Italian and UK press and it adopts a two-stage methodological approach. In …

Abstract This Working Paper provides an overview of social science literature on narratives,
with a particular focus on narratives on migration (MiNa). The paper starts by tracing the …

Understanding the dynamics of the illiberal practices of liberal states is increasingly
important in Europe today. This book examines the changing relationship between …

While ethnic neighborhoods are usually associated with poverty, crime and social problems,
they have also emerged as places of leisure and consumption, providing opportunities for …

The present paper analyses discursive representations and standpoint-arguments pairs,
realized in articles of four mainstream Italian newspapers that report on migrants' and …

Why is media hype interesting? It is interesting because hype cannot be entirely explained
by the mechanisms of media reporting. Why not? Because media outlets report signif icantly …

This paper studies the role of the news media in the criminalisation of ethnic groups, and the
relations between criminalisation processes and the racialisation of difference. The claim of …

Il discorso sulle migrazioni nell'Italia contemporanea : un'analisi linguistico-discorsiva sulla
stampa (2000-2010) / Pa Page 1 Il discorso sulle migrazioni nell’Italia contemporanea Un’analisi …

Si ritiene comunemente che l'invasione della paura nelle società contemporanee sia l'esito
dell'assenza di politiche adeguate nel contrastare la criminalità dilagante e nel ristabilire …

Media play a central role in the process of symbolic and social construction of reality: the
news trace the outlines of the identities and of public policies in a particularly evident way in …