The Representation of Islam and Muslims in the UK Press 1998-2008
Summary: The project involves corpus linguistics approaches with critical discourse analysis in order to examine how Muslims and Islam are represented in the main British national newspapers over the last decade. We will be considering diachronic change and change within individual newspapers, using corpus techniques to highlight language patterns that reveal discourses.
Key Facts
Funder: ESRC
Principal Investigator: Paul Baker
Co-investigator: Tony McEnery
Consultant: Linda Woodhead (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR)
Researcher: Costas Gabrielatos
Dept/Research Group: Linguistics and English Language
Keywords: Broadcast talk and media discourse, Corpus linguistics, Critical discourse analysis, Discourse analysis, Language, Language and sexual identities, Linguistics
Project Funder
ESRC
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Research on representation of Islam in the UK press cited by ENGAGE
Date: 17 November 2011
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