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Dear all
We are pleased to announce that Dr Costas Gabrielatos, from Edge Hill University, will be delivering a guest lecture at the next Newcastle Critical Discourse Group session
on Wednesday 4th December. This event will take place at 4pm in room 1.06, Armstrong Building, Newcastle University. All colleagues, students and guests are welcome.
Title and abstract as follows:
A Corpus Approach to the Representation of Islam and Muslims in the UK Press
Costas Gabrielatos (Edge Hill University)
The presentation will report on the main outcomes of the ESRC-funded project, Presentation of Islam and Muslims in the UK press, 1998-2009. It will also focus on the different
corpus techniques used in the analysis, and comment on the merits and limitations of corpus approaches to discourse meaning. The project used a corpus of 143 million words, containing over 200,000 articles published in 12 national UK newspapers and their Sunday
editions between 1998 and 2009. The analysis used corpus approaches, with the point of entry for the qualitative aspect of the analysis being the examination of the use of the words ‘Muslim(s)’ and ‘Islam’, as well as words used frequently in conjunction to
them. The analysis revealed that Islam is treated predominantly as an ideology, rather than a religion. Similarly, the adjective Muslim is associated more frequently with issues of governance (e.g. politics, law) than with issues of religion. Irrespective
of the stance projected in particular articles or newspapers, the discussion of Islam and Muslims in the UK press is, overall, carried out within contexts of armed/social conflict and/or terrorism, and the attendant issues of social disruption, violence, destruction
and death.
Dr Darren Kelsey
Lecturer in Journalism and Discourse Studies
BA Degree Programme Director, Media and Cultural Studies
School of Arts and Cultures
Newcastle University
Room 2.85, Second Floor
Armstrong Building
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Tel: 0191 222 6474