Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The Representation of Islam in the British Press

ISBN-13: 9781108790611 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 292 str.

Paul Baker; Costas Gabrielatos; Tony McEnery

Opis

Is the British press prejudiced against Muslims? In what ways can prejudice be explicit and subtle? This thorough analysis of over 140 million words of newspaper articles explores that question. Using tools of critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, it produces an objective picture of media attitudes towards Muslims and Islam.

Recenzje

'What sets this discourse analysis apart from its predecessors is its completeness: the authors' sample is not a selection of newspapers, accommodating the political stance of the outlet (left-leaning, right-leaning), the format (tabloid, broadsheet), or a narrow period; neither, having aggregated all the articles that mention the topic, do they thin the sample by random or purposive selection. Their corpus includes all the major daily newspapers and all the articles published therein that refer to Islam and Muslims between 1998 and 2009. Although the authors allow that some articles may have slipped through their net, the corpus they compiled contains 200,037 articles.' Michael B. Munnik, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Sketching Muslims: the big picture; 3. Muslim or Moslem: differences between newspapers; 4. The 9/11 effect: change over time; 5. Welcome to Muslim world: collectivisation and differentiation; 6. What's a devout Muslim? Ways of believing; 7. From hate preachers to scroungers: who benefits?; 8. Burqas and brainwashing: Muslims and gender; 9. Does history rhyme? Earlier news representations of Muslims; 10. Conclusion.