Frenar los flujos - Zur Funktion und Wirkweise von Metaphern des spanischen Flüchtlingsdiskurses

Abstract

The article examines and analyses the metaphorical conceptualization of refugees in Spanish press articles from February 2016, the month in which the European Union – after months of arduous debate and unilateral political decisions – passed a law to regulate so-called migration flows and to control the external borders of the European Union. The paper investigates linguistic metaphors used to frame refugees in La Razón, a conservative daily newspaper, and in El País, a politically left-leaning daily newspaper. The aim is to reveal commonalities and differences in the linguistic representation of refugees in each periodical which may be attributed to their respective political positions.