“The Rohingyas are a Danger” The Representations of Rohingyas in Thai News Discourse A Critical Metaphor Analysis
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This article aims to study metaphor as linguistic device in news discourse about the Rohingya. Six hundred and twenty pieces of news were collected from the Thai online newspapers: Thai Rath, Daily News, Matichon, Kom Chad Luek and Khao Sod from 2007 to 2015, and Charteris-Black's Critical Metaphor Analysis (CMA) was adopted to examine the relationship between metaphors and representations of the Rohingya.The findings reveal four representations as follows: 1) the Rohingya are dangerous, represented by war metaphors, fire metaphors, and medical treatment metaphors. 2) the Rohingya are undesirable, represented by house metaphors, dirtiness metaphors and weed metaphors.3) the Rohingya are miserable people, represented by business metaphors and 4) the Rohingya as a problem, represented by sport metaphors and education metaphors.These metaphors function as follows: 1) to distinguish between us and them 2) to emphasis negative aspects of the Rohingya and hide the miserable plight of this ethnic group 3) to dehumanize the Rohingya by the selection of source domains that detach features of human beings when referring to Rohingya. These functions legitimize the Thai government’s action and policy to deny the Rohingya entry to the country and to expel Rohingya migrants from the country.
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