REFUGEE CRISIS IN TERMS OF LANGUAGE: FROM EMPATHY TO INTOLERANCE
REFUGEE CRISIS IN TERMS OF LANGUAGE: FROM EMPATHY TO INTOLERANCE

Summary/Abstract: By analyzing language use in online newspaper articles, this paper focuses first on the heated discussion regarding the appropriate term to be used in order to refer to these people, in particular, whether they are migrants or refugees and whether that issue matters at all. Further, it speculates about the importance of specific wording in these texts, since the language itself often influences our attitudes and the way of thinking, but also evokes mixed feelings, in this case empathy and intolerance. Finally, the paper concludes with recurrent metaphors used to describe refugees and their influence on our perception of the crisis.

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