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The Representation of Islam and Muslims in the UK Press 1998-2008

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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 (Linguistics and English Language)

Co-investigator: Tony McEnery (Linguistics and English Language)

Consultant: Linda Woodhead (Politics, Philosophy and Religion PPR)

Researcher: Costas Gabrielatos (Linguistics and English Language)

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

A press release summarising resaerch on the representation of Islam and Muslims in the UK press by Paul Baker, Costas Gabrielatos and Tony McEnery has ... Read more»