Representations of Eastern Europeans in the UK in reader comments of two British online newspapers

• Autores: Malgorzata Paprota
• Localización: Representing the other in European media discourses / coord. por Jan Chovanec, Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, 2017, ISBN 978-90-272-0665-7, págs. 183-206
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This chapter examines a sample of reader comments on parallel articles from two online quality dailies published in the UK at different points in 2014, telegraph.co.uk and theguardian.com, concerning the post-2004 migration from Eastern European countries to the UK. Remaining within critical discourse studies, in particular the discourse-historical approach, it sets out to analyse the representations of Eastern Europeans “below the line,” ie., in reader comments. The chapter finds that while Eastern European immigrants tend to be represented as problematic in what is a predominantly utilitarian frame of reference, these representations intersect with a problematisation of UK's position in the EU and arguably externalise anxieties caused by the precarious economic situation in the UK.