The migration crisis discourse in global mass media
The article is a critical discourse analysis investigation on the linguistic features of the migration crisis discourse which is the consequence of the political changes that swept over Europe during the Kosovo crisis of 1999. Within the framework of critical discourse analysis discourse is considered as a form of social interaction, which, in our opinion, allows us to clarify how ideology, a system of views, values and goals adopted in this or that society, forms the rules of discourse and determines its content. The author examines the discursive representation of migrants in the world press in the first three months of 1999, identifies the main discursive strategies and mechanisms for their implementation. The choice of this period is caused by the appearance of a large number of articles on this issue in the world press. This paper is an attempt to identify the main linguistic mechanisms of discourse strategy implementation employed by various newspapers of that time in the ways they represent migrants. The cumulative personification of refugees, a detailed description of their lives constructs this group as the most socially unprotected with the goal of forming a sympathetic attitude towards this group of refugees and representing them as victims of a military conflict. Humanization and victimization of refugees became the main components of the migration discourse content in Europe in early 1999, reflecting the general sympathetic attitude to this category of citizens in the analyzed newspaper publications. The central problem for critical linguists is to provide substantiation of the connection between discourse as a text and discourse as a social practice. In this study, an attempt to relate the typical features of text as an object of microanalysis with typical characteristics of society as an object of macroanalysis is made. A holistic understanding of the nature, causes and consequences of migration requires a systematic analysis of all discursive strategies in a broad social context.