The master thesis Picture Inventories and Competing Terms in the Refugee Discourse on Wikipedia: A Contrastive Discourse Analysis of the German and Slovenian language version deals with a contrastive discourse analysis of selected Wikipedia articles in Slovenian and German on the topic of refugee discourse. The theoretical part of the master thesis, comprising chapters 1 to 4, explains the characteristics of computer-mediated communication and the web encyclopedia Wikipedia. The theoretical part defines discourse linguistics and the methods of contrastive-discourse analysis. In chapter 5 follows the empirical part of the master thesis, where contrastive analysis shows differences and similarities between selected Wikipedia articles of both language versions. The purpose of the master thesis is to demonstrate from a discourse-analytical perspective, how Wikipedia can be used as a source for the linguistic and cultural comparison of digital discourses. Selected Wikipedia articles in the Slovenian and German versions on the topic of refugees, which are linked by hyperlinks, represent a research corpus aimed at highlighting cultural and linguistic convergence as well as divergence.
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