Dangerous Waters Metaphor in News Discourse on Refugee Crisis

Résumé

Employing Steen's three-dimensional model of metaphor analysis (2008; 2011), the paper examines DANGEROUS WATERS metaphors used in the US, British and Bosnian-Herzegovinian news discourse on Refugee crisis. The study reveals that there are no significant differences in metaphorization of migrants in news broadcasts by BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera Balkans, which means that MIGRATION AS DANGEROUS WATERS is frequent and used in order to promote certain viewpoints and express rhetorical goals in discourse. Thus, critical analysis of the use of DANGEROUS WATERS metaphor points to certain ideological qualities of conceptualization of migrants in the media in the UK, USA and Bosnia-Herzegovina.