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Preliminary Remarks Abbreviations Corpus Linguistics Glossary Introduction Europe in crisis: between incertitude and doubts Belgium, a two-speed country Research question, corpus and methodology Outcome of the book Book structure Chapter 1 - Denominations: A Cornerstone of the Discursive Construction of Public Issues in the Media 1.1 Discourse, a social practice in which denomination plays a central role 1.2 Discursive Semantics 1.3 Is naming an objective act? 1.4 The narration of public issues Conclusion Chapter 2 - Migration, A Prominent Public Issue Broadcast through the Media 2.1 The constitution of migration as a public issue 2.2 How the media portrays migration 2.3 How the media names the protagonists of the migratory crisis Conclusion Chapter 3 - Belgium, a Case Study 3.1 Legal framework of migration in Belgium 3.2 The 2015-2017 migratory crisis in Belgium 3.3 The Belgian media landscape Conclusion Chapter 4 - Research Question, Corpus & Methodology 4.1 Research Question and variables 4.2 Corpus 4.3 The articulation of the quantitative and qualitative methods Conclusion Chapter 5 - Lexical Repertoire of Denominations in Dutch and French 5.1 People denominations/designations in the DLC 5.2 People denominations/designations in the FLC 5.3 A corpus comparison starts with statistics 5.4 A lexico-syntactic taxonomy Conclusion Chapter 6 - Variations in the Repertoire of Legal Denominations 6.1 Refugee, the Holy Grail 6.2 Asylum seeker, the mainstream label 6.3 The polysemy of foreigner 6.4 The lexical proximity of refugee and asylum seeker, opposed to foreigner Chapter 7 - Variations in the Repertoire of Nonlegal Statistical Denominations 7.1 Migrant: from a neutral denomination to a negatively connotated term 7.2 Non-axiological designations referring to a nationality: ethnonyms 7.3 Newcomers and oldcomers: buzzwords in Belgian political discourse? 7.4 Allochthone, a loan word 7.5 The legitimate Syrians and vulnerable minors opposed to the unwelcomed migrants, not to mention the others Chapter 8 - Variations in the Repertoire of Nonlegal and Nonstatistical Denominations 8.1 Non-axiological denominations referring to kinship 8.2 Common-language non-axiological denominations and designations 8.3 Denominations and designations stemming from the activist discourse 8.4 Denominations and designations stemming from the political discourse 8.5 Media discourse: a place where political and activist denominations circulate Conclusion: Of the Importance of Denominations French- and Dutch-language media use a different lexical repertoire The same denominations have a different meaning in the media of both linguistic communities Newspapers and TV news items display a different lexical repertoire (Public) quality and popular media outlets use a different lexical repertoire Denominations that name the protagonists of the 2015-2017 migratory crisis evolve over time Combination of the deductive and inductive approach The big picture Bibliography

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