Between specialisation and decategorisation: How diversity meaning shifts in the Belgian francophone media

In the past few years, the concept of diversity became widespread in the Western world. Its polysemy and vague referent (i.e. the social phenomenon it refers to) has not prevented the word to become a keyword in countries characterised by the acknowledgment of a postcolonial society and the coexistence of ethnic minorities. Belgium has embraced diversity, a concept that we can easily find in the media as in political discourse, even if it has no clear meaning (Senac 2012; Devriendt 2012). In the French field of discourse analysis, it has been noted that the word behaves like a fuzzy expression... Mehr ...