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Linguistics
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Article
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811.111(73)’42+929Трамп
DOI: 
10.18500/1817-7115-2021-21-1-25-31
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TVBVVC

Discourse on immigration in the USA: A comparative analysis of president’ Donald Trump’s speeches and articles in two american newspapers

Autors: 
Kirichenko Nataliya R., Irkutsk National Research Technical University
Gurin Vladimir B., Irkutsk State University
Novolodskaya Nataliya S., East Siberian Institute of the MIA of Russia
Abstract: 

The article is dedicated to the discourse analysis of the themes raised in the American media when reporting on immigrants. The study attempts to gain an understanding of the existing public attitudes towards refugees and the problem of immigration. We used a mixed research approach combining discourse analysis, framing analysis and corpus linguistics to examine 151 articles over the 12-month period of 2018.

Key words: 
immigration
immigration discourse
representation of immigration
media coverage
immigrant stereotyping
political discourse
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Received: 
18.09.2020
Accepted: 
02.11.2020
Available online: 
31.03.2021
Published: 
31.03.2021