Global responsibility: An exploratory corpus assisted discourse analysis of the Rohingya crisis in online media
This study conducts an exploratory corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the representation of the Rohingya minority group across online news media in the United Kingdom. The purpose of the study is to identify and interpret the discursive patterns employed in popular online news media when depicti...
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This study conducts an exploratory corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the representation of the Rohingya minority group across online news media in the United Kingdom. The purpose of the study is to identify and interpret the discursive patterns employed in popular online news media when depicting the Rohingya minority and associated crises affecting the group in Myanmar and worldwide. Through the use of a combination of frequency, collocation, and concordance analysis, a synchronic study was undertaken using data collected from fifteen major online news media producers in the United Kingdom. The data was collected over a period from January 2017 – August 2020 through freely accessible digital archives. The research study found that particular discourses of security, internationalization, and power are commonly employed when reporting on the Rohingya, while equally a sympathetic viewpoint is often adopted which focuses specifically on global responsibility and failures of international society. The findings offer insight into socio-political processes of representation and discourse in the ‘new social location’ (Scholz, 2019) of online news media, while offering relevant insight into the discourses of urgent and pressing humanitarian issues.
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| spelling | doaj-art-7f6bba3bba064195be2e0f088e9f971f2024-12-05T18:58:35ZengUniversiti MalayaJournal of Modern Languages1675-526X2462-19862021-07-01311Global responsibility: An exploratory corpus assisted discourse analysis of the Rohingya crisis in online mediaJasper Roe0University of Valencia, Spain This study conducts an exploratory corpus-assisted discourse analysis of the representation of the Rohingya minority group across online news media in the United Kingdom. The purpose of the study is to identify and interpret the discursive patterns employed in popular online news media when depicting the Rohingya minority and associated crises affecting the group in Myanmar and worldwide. Through the use of a combination of frequency, collocation, and concordance analysis, a synchronic study was undertaken using data collected from fifteen major online news media producers in the United Kingdom. The data was collected over a period from January 2017 – August 2020 through freely accessible digital archives. The research study found that particular discourses of security, internationalization, and power are commonly employed when reporting on the Rohingya, while equally a sympathetic viewpoint is often adopted which focuses specifically on global responsibility and failures of international society. The findings offer insight into socio-political processes of representation and discourse in the ‘new social location’ (Scholz, 2019) of online news media, while offering relevant insight into the discourses of urgent and pressing humanitarian issues. https://ajba.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/29904DiscourseCorporaLinguisticsRohingyaMyanmar |
| spellingShingle | Jasper Roe Global responsibility: An exploratory corpus assisted discourse analysis of the Rohingya crisis in online media Journal of Modern Languages Discourse Corpora Linguistics Rohingya Myanmar |
| title | Global responsibility: An exploratory corpus assisted discourse analysis of the Rohingya crisis in online media |
| title_full | Global responsibility: An exploratory corpus assisted discourse analysis of the Rohingya crisis in online media |
| title_fullStr | Global responsibility: An exploratory corpus assisted discourse analysis of the Rohingya crisis in online media |
| title_full_unstemmed | Global responsibility: An exploratory corpus assisted discourse analysis of the Rohingya crisis in online media |
| title_short | Global responsibility: An exploratory corpus assisted discourse analysis of the Rohingya crisis in online media |
| title_sort | global responsibility an exploratory corpus assisted discourse analysis of the rohingya crisis in online media |
| topic | Discourse Corpora Linguistics Rohingya Myanmar |
| url | https://ajba.um.edu.my/index.php/JML/article/view/29904 |
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