Analysing Linguistics Features to Reveal Framing and Agenda Setting Behind Expulsion of Afghan Refugees in the Newspaper Articles

Abstract

This study examines the role of the print media that influences public perception and shapes their thoughts by framing and agenda-setting through linguistic features in the articles regarding the expulsion of Afghan refugees, taken from various newspapers.  This study analyzes the newspaper articles through Four Criteria by Cappella and Jamieson taken from Robert M. Entman's book Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm and it is used as the model for the analysis of the newspaper articles. The framing and agenda are set through various narratives such as the involvement of Afghan refugees in the propagation of polio and the impediment to Polio Virus vaccines as well as Afghanis, involved in many terror blasts, promoting terrorism in the country. Such narratives have been deciphered in the analysis of the newspaper articles examining the linguistic features used in shaping the minds of the commoners. Various literature can be found on Afghan refugees but the narratives that are being framed through newspaper print articles have not been explored.