Discursive Construction of Otherness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Media Representations of International Students

Kim Jung Sook (김정숙)

doi:10.14353/sjk.2020.28.2.03

Discursive Construction of Otherness: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Media Representations of International Students

The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
Abbr : 사회언어학
2020, 28(2), pp.65-93
DOI : 10.14353/sjk.2020.28.2.03
Publisher : The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
Research Area : Humanities > Linguistics
Received : May 10, 2020
Accepted : June 2, 2020
Published : June 30, 2020

Kim Jung Sook ¹

¹대구대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article investigates from a critical discourse studies perspective the news media representations of inbound international students in Korean higher education. In light of the ideological workings of discourse and the media's social impact on the public consciousness, the current study examines the structures and detailed meanings of the media portrayals of international students as regards the three dimensions of the textual feature, discursive practice, and social practice. The findings suggest that the media representations of international students are racialized according to stratified power relations in the context of Korean higher education, and that the racialization and stratification is undergirded by neoliberal capitalist ideology of internationalization, ambivalent diversity discourse of Others, and benevolent care discourse of the minoritized. A range of discursive othering strategies are deployed in the news texts to render more newsworthy the reported issues and incidents concerning international students. The article concludes and argues that more fluid approaches to diversity should be developed to account for the complexity and multiplicity of transnational subjectivities.

KEYWORDS

Critical Discourse Analysis, International Students, Otherness, Benevolent Care Discourse, Media Discourse

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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