Co-author: Paul Baker Date: 27 March 2013 Book
The Representation of Islam and Muslims in the UK Press, 1998-2008
- Start date: 01 September 2009
- End date: 30 November 2010
This project will look at the representation of Muslims and Islam in British newspapers from 1998-2008. In doing so it will use corpus based Critical Discourse Analysis (Baker et al, 2008).
The following research questions will be addressed:
- What differences exist between the ways that British newspapers (individually and collectively) use language to represent Muslims and Islam? Specifically, what grammatical and lexical patterns are evident (eg collocations, keywords, clusters, subject-object relations and metaphors).
- In what ways have UK newspaper representations of Muslims/Islam changed between 1998 and 2008?
- Are Muslims treated as a homogeneous group by the UK press? If not, what sub-groups are constructed and how are they represented?
- To what extent is Islam treated only as a religion; are Muslims treated only as (a) religious group(s)?
- How can the findings in 1-4 be explained and what recommendations could be made for 'best practice' regarding representation of Muslims/Islam in the UK press?
In terms of methodology, the main objective is to further evaluate and refine the methodological framework and tools used and developed in previous related studies using corpus based CDA.
- Outputs (9)
- Impacts & reports (2)
Author: P. Baker Date: 27 March 2013 Journal article
Author: Costas Gabrielatos Date: 27 March 2013 Journal article
The presentation of Islam and Muslims in the UK press, 1998-2009 : identifying topics through detailed wordlist analysis
Creator: Costas Gabrielatos Date: 10 November 2010 Presentation/lecture
The representation of Muslims in the British press 1998-2009
Author: Paul Baker Date: 10 November 2010 Conference paper/presentation
Corpus-based methodology and critical discourse studies : context, content, computation
Creator: Costas Gabrielatos Date: 10 November 2010 Presentation/lecture
"All that dark material" : a corpus-based analysis of representations of Muslim women in the UK press
Creator: Paul Baker Date: 10 November 2010 Presentation/lecture
Who benefits? : Muslims on benefits and the UK press
Creator: Paul Baker Date: 10 November 2010 Presentation/lecture
Using sketch engine to examine the presentation of Islam and Muslims in the UK press
Author: Gabrielatos Costas Date: 10 November 2010 Conference paper/presentation