The Migration as an Invasion and the Common European House metaphors in media discourse

Mersina Mujagić

doi:10.2478/exell-2022-0009

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The Migration as an Invasion and the Common European House metaphors in media discourse

ExELL

Volume 10 (2022): Issue 1 (October 2022)

By: Mersina Mujagić

Open Access

|Dec 2022

Abstract

The article discusses figurative use of expressions from the domains of INVASION and HOUSE in media discourse on the European migrant crisis. The conceptual metaphors MIGRATION AS AN INVASION and the COMMON EUROPEAN HOUSE, which are inextricably related in the segments of the real discourse on migration, have strong rhetorical power and serve as a means of promoting antimigrant ideologies. The aim of this paper is to identify the instances of deliberate use of the aforementioned metaphors in British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian papers and describe their use in the media with the aim of changing addressees’ perspectives on an important issue such as migration.

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