ABSTRACT
We have several goals in this study. 1 Firstly, to extend our work on how local media presented Romanies and related themes soon after the Czech Republic came into being in 1993 (Leudar and Nekvapil, 2000). We shall do this here specifically in the context of the new migration law which was then being discussed in the Czech Republic. Our second goal is to continue to develop the concept of a ‘dialogical network’ which we have formulated in our previous work (Leudar, 1995; Leudar, 1998; Leudar and Nekvapil, 1998; Nekvapil and Leudar, 1998). Our third aim not unrelated to the second is to show how mass media materials, both actual texts and their themes are used in everyday conversations.
