Fleeing, sneaking, flooding: A corpus analysis of discursive constructions of refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK Press, 1996-2005

Journal of English Linguistics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-38

  Gabrielatos, Costas ^a   Baker, Paul ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asylum; Collocates; Corpus; Discourse; Keywords; Newspapers; Refugees

Indexed keywords

EID: 43449096229     PISSN: 00754242     EISSN: 15525457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0075424207311247     Document Type: Article

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