| Note: | ADDRESS: Reproduction of nationalism in media discourse / ABSTRACT: Nation and nationalism are historical and social phenomena that emerged in the modern period. We define a nation as an “imagined community” which has been significantly assisted in the imagining process by the media, i.e. the press. Nationalism, a phenomenon that is difficult to define, is still present in today's already established nation states and is often manifested by covert mechanisms and as such shows the properties of ideology. Ideology, defined as a belief system of a group, is manifested through discourse. The national identity itself, which always rests on the US versus THEM opposition, is also a discursive construction. The media and ideology are closely interlinked. Even today, the media play the biggest role in imagining the nation. Through “WE” versus “THEM” discourse in which “WE” is portrayed in a positive light and “THEM” in a negative, the media participate in the discursive reproduction of nationalism. Using the method of critical discourse analysis in articles, we investigate how much nationalist discourse appears in the
Croatian media. Using the example of the migrant crisis coverage in the online editions of the Croatian media, we tried to point out some of the characteristics of the ideological discourse that indicate the presence of ationalist rhetoric. / KEYWORDS: nationalism, ideology, media, critical analysis of discourse, migrant crisis |
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