Brain drain, exodus and chicken run : media discourses on emigration

Bright, Sue-Ann

Title: Brain drain, exodus and chicken run : media discourses on emigration
Creator: Bright, Sue-Ann
Subject: Mass media and language -- South Africa
Subject: Mass media criticism -- South Africa
Subject: Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
Date Issued: 2005
Date: 2005
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MA
Identifier: vital:3163
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007672
Identifier: Mass media and language -- South Africa
Identifier: Mass media criticism -- South Africa
Identifier: Discourse analysis -- Social aspects
Description: This paper explores the discourses of emigration in a South African daily newspaper from 1988 to 2001, and discusses the implications of these discourses on the way in which emigration is constructed within South African society In this paper, Potter and Wetherell 's (1987) approach to discourse analysis is utilized. It makes use of interpretative repertoires, to explore the functions and consequences of the discourses. The discursive framework thereby reveals the different subject positions related to nationalism, race and class. It is argued that economics and notions of culture and social class, do more than provide a useful medium through which the phenomenon of emigration can be understood. They also support the affirmations of certain groups of people above others, by claiming that emigration is unpatriotic and disloyal. This paper concludes by identifying the negative connotations of media discourses in the construction of emigration and acknowledges that many alternate constructions are silenced in this matter.
Format: 70 leaves
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Humanities, Psychology
Language: English
Rights: Bright, Sue-Ann

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