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dc.contributor.authorLange, Aurora Kristine Strande
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-02T23:46:44Z
dc.date.available2020-11-02T23:46:44Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.citationLange, Aurora Kristine Strande. “A Good Muslim is not Afraid of Death” A Corpus-Assisted Study of the Representation of Muslims in the American Press. Master thesis, University of Oslo, 2017
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10852/80828
dc.description.abstractThis thesis investigates how Muslims are portrayed in the American press by examining the nominal collocates of the adjective Muslim, and the adjectival collocates of the noun Muslim. The dominating approach in this study is Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS). CADS combines discourse analysis with the methodology of corpus linguistics, and is both quantitative and qualitative, and thus less prone to bias and ‘cherry-picking’. The material used in this thesis is primarily drawn from the Contemporary Corpus of American English (COCA), and the framework used for the qualitative analysis is based on Baker et al. (2012) who investigated the representation of Muslims in the British press. The study found that the use of both the adjective Muslim, and the noun Muslim is constantly increasing. In other words, the American press has never been more interested in Muslims than they are now. Furthermore, the American press seems to be concerned mainly with gender inequality, especially in terms of veiling, integration, and terrorism. To sum up, the word Muslim appears predominantly in a negative context, and in contexts that might suggest that the American press has adopted to use a discourse based on an ‘us’ versus ‘they’ mentality.eng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.subjectCDA
dc.subjectAmerican Media
dc.subjectNouns
dc.subjectRacist Discourse
dc.subjectCorpus-Assisted Discourse Studies
dc.subjectCDS
dc.subjectCOCA
dc.subjectAmerican Press
dc.subjectNews
dc.subjectMuslim men
dc.subjectCorpus Linguistics
dc.subjectVeiling
dc.subjectMuslims
dc.subjectgood Muslims
dc.subjectyoung Muslims
dc.subjectCritical Discourse Studies
dc.subjectCritical Discourse Analysis
dc.subjectCL
dc.subjectMuslim women
dc.subjectTerror
dc.subjectMuslim community
dc.subjectEnglish
dc.subjectCADS
dc.subjectIslam
dc.subjectMedia Discourse
dc.subjectBritish Press
dc.subjectNOW
dc.subjectMuslim world
dc.subjectAdjectives
dc.title“A Good Muslim is not Afraid of Death” A Corpus-Assisted Study of the Representation of Muslims in the American Presseng
dc.typeMaster thesis
dc.date.updated2020-11-03T23:45:44Z
dc.creator.authorLange, Aurora Kristine Strande
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:no-83915
dc.type.documentMasteroppgave
dc.identifier.fulltextFulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/80828/1/Aurora-Lange--Master-2017.pdf


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