This study examines the topical frames reflected in articles published about Syrian refugees by German, British and American news websites in 2016. We analyze these for terms associated with Syrian refugees and the themes they address then relate them to those we identified for 2015 and to those indicated by German students in expressing their attitudes towards them. The results show that, despite discrepancies in the occurrence of Syrian refugees’ collocates in our 2016 news corpora, they still reflect, at a lower rate, the themes identified for 2015: humanitarianism, conflict, dehumanization, security, economic burden, political responsibility, and integration. The survey results confirm humanitarianism and integration as particularly prominent themes for our participants, too. While our findings provide further discursive evidence for the variation in refugees’ representations in news discourse and for the influence of media on public opinion, they suggest that this impact may be balanced out by other factors including an audience’s critical reading and thinking skills.

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数字新闻话语中的叙利亚难民：德国的描述和反思

本研究考察了 2016 年德国、英国和美国新闻网站发表的关于叙利亚难民的文章中反映的主题框架。我们分析了这些与叙利亚难民相关的术语及其所涉及的主题，然后将它们与我们为 2015 年确定的那些和那些德国学生在表达对他们的态度时表明了这一点。结果表明，尽管我们 2016 年新闻语料库中叙利亚难民的搭配出现了差异，但它们仍然以较低的比例反映了 2015 年确定的主题：人道主义、冲突、非人化、安全、经济负担、政治责任、和整合。调查结果证实，人道主义和融合也是我们参与者特别突出的主题。