What if migrants were only people and relatives? Designations used to name people on the move in the Belgian media

This article focuses on denominations that are used to name people on the move in Belgian mediadiscourse, but that are not specifically related to migration. It specifically studies the nominalsyntagms formed with the noun people (people on the run, people in need) and words of kinship(mother, brother). A Discursive Semantics analysis implemented through Corpus Linguisticsis run on a corpus of Belgian news items issued from March 2015 to July 2017. The corpusgathers 13,391 newspaper articles and 3490 TV news items (representing 7,637,986 words). Themention of words of kinship and designations... Mehr ...