Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction: Language Corpora and Media Discourse on Migration

Chapter 1: Ideology in the Contemporary Media: Bias in the British Press

Chapter 2: Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis: Data Collection and Corpus Construction

Chapter 3: Discursive Representations of Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Immigrants, and Migrants (RASIM) Prior to the EU Referendum

Chapter 4: Discursive Representations of Migrants after the EU Referendum

Chapter 5: The English Garden: A Metaphor for English Society

Chapter 6: The Metaphorical Motif of War in the British Press

Conclusion: Principles of Cohesion and Evaluation in Newspaper Texts

Appendix

About the Author

Anna Islentyeva is a research associate and senior lecturer in sociolinguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her scientific interests include semantics, conceptual metaphor, discourse analysis, and critical discourse studies. Anna is interested in research that places a special emphasis on the social aspects of language and examines ideologically relevant linguistic patterns in different types of discourses. Her current research projects address media discourses surrounding European migration following the EU referendum, as well as representations of Europe and Britain in the British media. Her recent publications include The Europe of Scary Metaphors (2019) and The Undesirable Migrant in the British Press (2018).