TY - CHAP
T1 - The Roma as Deixis of Emotionality
T2 - Salient Politics and Exclusionary Media Discourse in the United Kingdom, Italy, and France
AU - Popoviciu, Liviu
AU - TRANDAFOIU, RUXANDRA
PY - 2022/9/1
Y1 - 2022/9/1
N2 - The aim of this chapter is to identify discursive strategies within Western media that construct the alterity and exclusion of the Roma and transform them in deixis of emotionality, helping majorities define their identity through objectifying, criminalizing, dehumanizing, and bordering “others.” We use content and discourse analysis of three popular dailies in three European countries (the United Kingdom, Italy, and France) to chart the discursive strategies that journalists and readers, through online comments accompanying articles, use to construct the Roma as objects of fear, disgust, shame, and anger. In these three countries Roma experienced forms of historical and contemporary persecution or discrimination (Clark and Rice, 2012; Picker, 2012; Sigona, 2005). We hope that by highlighting these aspects of media reporting and public discourse we can contribute to the Roma community’s efforts to reduce stigmatization and marginalization.
AB - The aim of this chapter is to identify discursive strategies within Western media that construct the alterity and exclusion of the Roma and transform them in deixis of emotionality, helping majorities define their identity through objectifying, criminalizing, dehumanizing, and bordering “others.” We use content and discourse analysis of three popular dailies in three European countries (the United Kingdom, Italy, and France) to chart the discursive strategies that journalists and readers, through online comments accompanying articles, use to construct the Roma as objects of fear, disgust, shame, and anger. In these three countries Roma experienced forms of historical and contemporary persecution or discrimination (Clark and Rice, 2012; Picker, 2012; Sigona, 2005). We hope that by highlighting these aspects of media reporting and public discourse we can contribute to the Roma community’s efforts to reduce stigmatization and marginalization.
KW - Roma, Romania, UK, France, Italy, deixis, emotionality, press, exclusion
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781802070194
T3 - Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines
SP - 123
EP - 137
BT - Cultures of Mobility and Alterity
A2 - Hashamova, Yana
A2 - Popescu-Sandu, Oana
A2 - Rucker-Chang, Sunnie
PB - Liverpool University Press
CY - Liverpool
ER -