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14 - Constructing Identities in Crisis Situations

A Study of the “Volunteer” in the Spanish and English Press

from Part III - Media Discourse and Conflict Resolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2022

By
María del Mar Sánchez Ramos
Edited by
Innocent Chiluwa
Innocent Chiluwa
Affiliation:
Covenant University, Nigeria
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Summary

Refugee crises around the world, especially the recent European migrant crisis, have highlighted the importance of the work done by volunteers. Drawing on a corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) approach and based on a comparable corpus of English and Spanish newspaper articles, this chapter examines the construction of the volunteer identity through language use in the press by combining quantitative corpus techniques and qualitative methods. Among other findings, the results indicate a humanitarian discourse in which volunteerism is constructed as a helping activity.

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corpus-assisted discourse analysisdiscourse analysisvolunteerismidentitycrisis situation
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Discourse, Media, and Conflict
Examining War and Resolution in the News
 , pp. 324 - 338
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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