National discourses, fragments of otherness, and the denial of gaze: Representational minimization and simplification of the Other in pro-migrant media texts

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National discourses, fragments of otherness, and the denial of gaze: Representational minimization and simplification of the Other in pro-migrant media texts (EN)

Archakis, Argiris
Lymperi, Maria

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2025-02-24


This paper investigates the social representation of migrants in western/European discourses. Our main claim is that the video texts under study, although explicitly pro-migrant, do not affirm the realities of migrants, but rather seem to draw more on national and western-oriented discourses, thus providing a calculated projection of visibility to migrants. That is, the video texts overrepresent a “tolerable”, “simplified” migrant who is socioculturally and linguistically familiar with the European/western audience. This familiar and thus tolerable migrant seems to be in contrast with some distant, vague and threatening “intolerable” Others, who remain largely minimized, delegitimized, and denied a gaze in advance. The racist background of this process is deconstructed on the basis of two theoretical premises: a) that the stereotypical representation of the “Other as threat” often continues to underpin pro-migrant discourses when they are articulated in terms of tolerance; and b) that such discursive scaffolding is more implicit, pushed to the margins of the representations that sustain these discourses and involves a more or less fragmented representation of otherness. The language and the degree of explicitness and marginality of such representations will be explored in our data through a discursive analysis based on the categories of highlighting and minimization respectively, which will be conceptualized drawing upon van Leeuwen’s (2008) framework. (EN)


Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics

Αγγλική γλώσσα

ΕΕΠΓ / LESoL (EN)


2585-2108
Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics; Τόμ. 4 (2024): Αστική Πολυγλωσσία: Ξαναπροσεγγίζοντας τη Σχέση Γλωσσικής και Κοινωνικής Ποικιλότητας στον Ελλαδικό Χώρο; 000-000 (EL)
Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics; Vol. 4 (2024): Αστική Πολυγλωσσία: Ξαναπροσεγγίζοντας τη Σχέση Γλωσσικής και Κοινωνικής Ποικιλότητας στον Ελλαδικό Χώρο; 000-000 (EN)

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