Prejudice as Top of Trauma of War: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Racial Bias towards Refugees of Colour during the Ukrainian Crisis
Keywords:
Racism, Ukrainian, Refugees, Critical discourse analysis, Media reportsAbstract
discourse plays a salient role in the portrayal of Ukrainian refugees who fled Ukraine during the Russian invasion in a different way of the other refugees from non European countries. The aim of this paper is to critically examine the most common terms that are utilised by media news reports in representing Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian refugees. It investigates how media portrays Ukrainian refugees in comparison to the `other refugees, as well as the racial bias towards the Ukrainian refugees and against other refugees from other areas who live in Ukraine. It’s more concerned with the representation of Ukrainian refugees in media reports, on Twitter, etc., from the perspective of critical discourse analysis, according to Wodak's (2001; 2009) discourse-historical approach and van Dijk's (2008) sociological representation of social actors. The selected data are analysed at two levels: linguistic and ideological. the result of this study are summed up in the conclusion.
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