Flüchtlingswelle e ondas de refugiados: metáforas sobre refúgio e imigração na mídia online brasileira e alemã.

Abstract

The way the midia represents migrants and refugees plays a role on their reception and perception in the new country (Ferreira/ Flister, 2019). The present study aims at discussing online media reports on migration and refuge in the light of cognitive linguistics through the analysis of conceptual metaphors employed by two online newspapers, i.e. a Brazilian and a German online newspaper which deal with the conceptualization of refuge (refúgio in Brazilian Portuguese, Flucht in German). Corpus linguistics was employed as supporting methodology. Our goal is to compare those linguistic uses in two different cultural and pragmatic contexts, i.e. the Brazilian and the German culture, by means of the analysis of conceptual mappings and metaphorical framings about refuge and migration in the online midia. Some questions we intend to address are: Which frames and metaphors emerge in the Brazilian and German midia in the online newspapers Folha de São Paulo (FSP) in Brazil, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Online (FaZ) in Germany in order to represent ‘refuge’? What are their implications? Results revealed the use of frames and metaphors from the experiential domain of DISASTERS/ NATURAL PHENOMENA with a negative polarity such as waves of immigration, migratory avalanche, Flüchtlingsströmen (streams of refugees), and Flüchtlingsbestie (refugee monster).