Towards an integrated argumentative approach to multimodal critical discourse analysis: evidence from the portrayal of refugees and immigrants in Greek newspapers

This paper proposes a methodological synthesis in order to study multimodal media discourse and argumentation in the context of the so-called 'refugee crisis' in Greece. It follows the framework of Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, integrating this with argumentation studies, with a...

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Published inCritical discourse studies Vol. 17; no. 5; pp. 545 - 565
Main Authors Serafis, Dimitris, Greco, Sara, Pollaroli, Chiara, Jermini-Martinez Soria, Chiara
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basingstoke Routledge 19.10.2020
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Argumentum Model of Topics (AMT)
Critical theory
Discourse analysis
Greece
Greek newspapers
Immigrants
Mass media images
Migrants
migration
multimodal argumentation
Multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA)
Multimodality
Photography
print media discourse
Racism
refugee crisis
Refugees
Scrutiny
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Summary:This paper proposes a methodological synthesis in order to study multimodal media discourse and argumentation in the context of the so-called 'refugee crisis' in Greece. It follows the framework of Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, integrating this with argumentation studies, with a particular emphasis on the analysis of inference. Our data come from the Greek newspapers Kathimerini and Ta Nea. We contend that the proposed methodological synergy enables scrutiny of (a) racist conceptualizations cultivated by the representation of migrants and refugees in headlines and photographs in newspaper articles along with (b) the argumentative potential that is implicitly sustained in these multimodal representations.
ISSN:1740-5904
1740-5912
DOI:10.1080/17405904.2019.1701509