Określenia migrantów i ich nacechowanie na polskich, bułgarskich i słoweńskich internetowych portalach informacyjnych

Abstract

In our paper we present the results of research concerning nouns used to describe people migrating from the Middle East and North Africa during last year (2015) on Polish, Bulgarian and Slovenian news websites. The collected data shows, that words migrant, immigrant and refugee are the majority of all nouns used. In Polish sources the main two words used to describe the migrants are: immigrant and refugee, which are used interchangeably in national-conservative sites, while liberal-left orientated portals prefer the second word. In Bulgarian and Slovenian sources the world immigrant is used extremely rarely; the only exception is Bulgarian right-wing conservative website Атака. The difference between Bulgarian and Slovenian lies in the division for national-conservative and left-wing liberal titles; which do not differ in the Bulgarian part of the data (with only one exception mentioned above), while on Slovenian websites this division is evident.