Communicative resources and credibility in public discourse on refugees

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ID2906598
AuthorsLaura Smith-Khan (0000-0003-3551-221X, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume48
Issue3
Pages403-427
Publication date2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage in Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-4045 • E-ISSN: 1469-8013
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0047404519000186
OpenAlexW2921602411
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited49

This article examines how communicative resources affect the construction of credible texts and identities in a public debate on Australia's treatment of a refugee. It centres on two key written statements-one from the Immigration Minister, and another from a Somali refugee. The analysis is divided into four levels, exploring the parties' respective linguistic, material, identity, and platform resources, and how these impact their statements' creation and reception, and their participation in discourse creation more generally. The article finds that there are inequalities on all four resource levels that largely undermine the refugee's ability to present a credible text and identity and challenge mainstream discourse on refugees. The article demonstrates how a multi-level analysis of communicative resources can challenge assumptions about participation and uncover inequalities invisible in the prevailing discourse. (Asylum, Australia, communicative resources, discourse, intercultural communication, media, power, refugee

Credibility · Critical discourse analysis · Discourse analysis · Identity (music) · Ideology · Immigration · Linguistics · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Refugee · Sociology · Somali · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy

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