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DISCOURSE & COMMUNICATION
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages 498-514Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1750481317714121
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Critical discourse studies; discursive strategies; European migrant crisis; hashtag; ideologies; political online discourse; racist discourse; refugees; Twitter
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In this study, I examine the online discourse of the European refugee crisis on the micro-blogging platform, Twitter. Specifically, I analyze 100 tweets that include #refugeesnotwelcome, and explore how this hashtag is used to express negative feelings, beliefs and ideologies toward refugees and (im) migrants in Europe. Guided by critical discourse studies, I focus on Twitter users' discursive strategies as well as form and function of semiotic resources and multimodality. Twitter users who include this particular hashtag use a rhetoric of inclusion and exclusion to depict refugees as unwanted, criminal outsiders. These tendencies align with current trends in Europe where nationalist-conservative and xenophobic right-wing groups gain power and establish a socially accepted discourse of racism.
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