Sketching Muslims: A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word 'Muslim' in the British Press 1998-2009
Sketching Muslims: A Corpus Driven Analysis of Representations Around the Word 'Muslim' in the British Press 1998-2009
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DOI：
10.1093/applin/ams048
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发表时间：
2013-07-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
McEnery, Tony
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作者：
Baker, Paul;Gabrielatos, Costas;McEnery, Tony
本文运用语料库语言学和批评性语篇分析的方法，考察了1998至2009年间出版的1.43亿字的英国报纸文章语料库中穆斯林一词的表征模式。使用分析工具Sketch Engine对穆斯林名词搭配进行分析，发现以下类别(按频率顺序)被引用：种族/国家认同、特征/区分属性、冲突、文化、宗教和群体/组织。研究发现，“冲突”这一类别的词汇量特别丰富，包含了许多词汇类型。它也被隐含地编入其他类别的索引中。其次，对穆斯林世界和穆斯林社区这两个最常见的搭配对的分析表明，它们被用来集团化穆斯林，两者都强调彼此的相同和与西方的不同。穆斯林也被认为容易被冒犯、疏远，并与非穆斯林发生冲突。此外，分析还考虑了使编辑能够印刷更具争议性的陈述的合法化策略，并以对研究人员偏见和通过在线社交网络扩大受众概念的讨论结束。
This article uses methods from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to examine patterns of representation around the word Muslim in a 143 million word corpus of British newspaper articles published between 1998 and 2009. Using the analysis tool Sketch Engine, an analysis of noun collocates of Muslim found that the following categories (in order of frequency) were referenced: ethnic/national identity, characterizing/differentiating attributes, conflict, culture, religion, and group/organizations. The 'conflict' category was found to be particularly lexically rich, containing many word types. It was also implicitly indexed in the other categories. Following this, an analysis of the two most frequent collocate pairs: Muslim world and Muslim community showed that they were used to collectivize Muslims, both emphasizing their sameness to each other and their difference to 'The West'. Muslims were also represented as easily offended, alienated, and in conflict with non-Muslims. The analysis additionally considered legitimation strategies that enabled editors to print more controversial representations, and concludes with a discussion of researcher bias and an extended notion of audience through online social networks.