摘要：Discourses on immigrants and minorities represent one of the most investigated topics in critically oriented discourse studies from the very beginning of Critical Discourse Analysis as an independent theoretical and methodological approach. Such attention is logical,given that it is an important social issue where asymmetric relations based on social power and dominance are created,maintained and reproduced. It is with respect to this long research tradition and its outcomes,that any new contribution will be considered and evaluated. It is also the case of the volume Discourses on Immigration in Times of Economic Crisis: A Critical Perspective which contains 11 studies edited by María Martínez Lirola (professor at the department of English studies at the University in Alicante in Spain). The book examines discourses on immigration and immigrants in a new setting,namely in the period of economic crisis of 2008 and afterwards. As the European economic crisis has had a huge impact on many people’s lives and welfare,it constitutes a very suitable object of study of social change induced by socio-economic events and how it is semiotically construed and represented in various discourses (see Fairclough,2012). The discourse(s) on immigration is one specific subdiscourse where effects of the economic crisis can be objectively observed and where various narratives on immigration emerge and are reproduced..
