How Islam is Represented in The United States Newspapers Published in COCA

DOI

10.2991/conaplin-18.2019.215How to use a DOI?

Keywords

COCA; corpus; critical discourse analysis; Islam; representation; the US newspapers

Abstract

This research is entitled “How Islam in Represented in The United States Newspapers Published in COCA”. The objects of this research are the adjectives that collocate with the word ‘Islam’ taken from newspapers in the United States obtained from COCA. The objectives of this research are to analyze what are the adjectives used by the U.S newspapers in describing Islam and to describe how Islam is represented in the U.S newspaper. The analysis of this research was done by using statistics descriptive method proposed by McEnery and Hardie as corpus linguistic approach. This study uses Van Dijk’s theory of critical discourse analysis and uses the other theories of media discourse analysis from Garret and Bell. This study shows that according to COCA, the newspapers in the U.S. have been collocating the word "Islam" in their news with these adjectives such as ‘radical’, ‘militant’, ‘fundamentalist’, ‘political’, and ‘holy’ for 624 times. Based on this finding, it can be concluded that American citizens appear to be so suspicious for Islam; they thought about Islam as an awful religion.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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