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McEnery, Tony, Paul Baker and Costas Gabrielatos. 2013. Sketching Muslims: A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word ‘Muslim’ in the British Press 1998–2009. Applied Linguistics 34 (3) : 225–278.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Oxford University Press

Annotation

This paper draws on corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to explore representational patterns around the word Muslim in a huge word corpus of British newspaper articles edited between 1998 and 2009. The referenced categories (in frequency order) include: ethnic/national identity, characterizing/distinguishing qualities, conflict, culture, religion, and group/organizations. The ‘conflict’ category appears to be especially lexically rich.