Discursive Construction of Immigration Through the Lens of News Values in the Brexit Referendum
This paper aims to analyse how immigration was discursively constructed as a newsworthy topic in the UK’s quality papers’ campaign coverage of the Brexit referendum. To do so, a corpus of four major British broadsheets (The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, and Daily Telegraph) was collected and...
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| description | This paper aims to analyse how immigration was discursively constructed as a newsworthy topic in the UK’s quality papers’ campaign coverage of the Brexit referendum. To do so, a corpus of four major British broadsheets (The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, and Daily Telegraph) was collected and analysed with a combination of qualitative (Discursive News Values Analysis) and quantitative (Corpus Linguistics) methods. The results show that similar patterns of news values usage appeared in the corpus across the ideological lines (left-right) and Brexit stance (Leave-Remain). Although some dissociation strategies can be observed in the left-wing or Remain backing press, the statistically significant presence of similar linguistic pointers indicates that an anti-immigrant discourse was a salient part of the coverage, even permeating into the left-wing press and the Remain camp’s discourse. The adoption and repetition of such narratives could also, by themselves, lead to further acceptance and normalisation of the common anti-immigrant topoi in the broader discourse of Brexit in society, although more research is needed in this regard. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-da4f5baba433464cbd751421d6d0760f2025-01-30T09:27:47ZengUniversidad de AlicanteRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses0214-48082171-861X2024-07-0141315210.14198/raei.2024.41.0235126Discursive Construction of Immigration Through the Lens of News Values in the Brexit ReferendumArash Javadinejad0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7850-0908Universidad Católica de Valencia/Universitat de ValènciaThis paper aims to analyse how immigration was discursively constructed as a newsworthy topic in the UK’s quality papers’ campaign coverage of the Brexit referendum. To do so, a corpus of four major British broadsheets (The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, and Daily Telegraph) was collected and analysed with a combination of qualitative (Discursive News Values Analysis) and quantitative (Corpus Linguistics) methods. The results show that similar patterns of news values usage appeared in the corpus across the ideological lines (left-right) and Brexit stance (Leave-Remain). Although some dissociation strategies can be observed in the left-wing or Remain backing press, the statistically significant presence of similar linguistic pointers indicates that an anti-immigrant discourse was a salient part of the coverage, even permeating into the left-wing press and the Remain camp’s discourse. The adoption and repetition of such narratives could also, by themselves, lead to further acceptance and normalisation of the common anti-immigrant topoi in the broader discourse of Brexit in society, although more research is needed in this regard.https://raei.ua.es/article/view/26914brexitimmigrationuk pressnews valuescorpus linguisticsdnvacads |
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| title | Discursive Construction of Immigration Through the Lens of News Values in the Brexit Referendum |
| title_full | Discursive Construction of Immigration Through the Lens of News Values in the Brexit Referendum |
| title_fullStr | Discursive Construction of Immigration Through the Lens of News Values in the Brexit Referendum |
| title_full_unstemmed | Discursive Construction of Immigration Through the Lens of News Values in the Brexit Referendum |
| title_short | Discursive Construction of Immigration Through the Lens of News Values in the Brexit Referendum |
| title_sort | discursive construction of immigration through the lens of news values in the brexit referendum |
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