Critical Discourse Analysis of Newspapers: Case Study of Muslim Women Representation in British Newspapers

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Declaration of Originality
AKNOWLEDGEMENT
Statement of Originality
Acknowledgments
Contents
General Introduction
Chapter 1: Theoretical Foundation of Critical Discourse Analysis
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Definition of Discourse Analysis
1.3 Definition of Critical Discourse Analysis
1.4 Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
1.4.1 The social orientation of Critical Discourse Analysis
1.4.2 Power relations in discourse
1.4.3 Discourse Constitutes society and culture
1.4.4 Discourse does ideological work
1.4.5Discourse is Historical
1.4.6The link between text and society is mediated
1.4.7 Discourse analysis is interpretative and explanatory
1.4.8 Discourse is a form of social action
1.5 The Notion of Critical
1.5.1 Critique as Revelation
1.5.2 Critical Practice as Self- reflexive
1.5.3 Critical practice as socially transformative
1.6 CDA Origins and its Development
1.6.1 Critical Linguistics
1.6.2 Systemic Functional Grammar
1.6.3 CDA and Social Theories
1.6.4 CDA Further Development
1.7 CDA Interests and Agenda
1.7.1 Ideology
1.7.1.1 Ideology definition and History
1.7.1.2 Dimensions of Ideology
1.7.1.3 Ideology in Marxism
1.7.1.4 Ideology, Media and Discourse
1.7.2 Power, discourse and social practice
1.7.2.1 Media Discourse and the Hidden Power
1.8 Approaches to CDA
1.8.1 Fairclough’s Critical Language Study Model
1.8.2Van Dijk’s Socio-Cognitive Approach
1.8.3 Discourse Historical Approach (DHA)
1.9Critics to CD
1.10 Conclusion
Chapter 2: Media Discourse
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Media importance
2.3 Approaches to media studies
2.3.1 Conversational Analysis
2.3.2 Content Analysis
2.3.3 Corpus Linguistics
2.3.4 (Critical) Discourse Analysis
2.4 Other Considerations to Media Studies
2.4.1 The Politics of the Media
2.4.2 The Economy of the Media
2.4.3 Access to the Media
2.4.4 Practices of Media Text Production and Consumption
2.5 Islam, Women and the Media
2.5.1 Islam and Muslims in the Western Media
2.5.2 Women in News Discourse
2.5.3 Muslim Women in the Media
2.5.3.1 Muslim Women Issues
2.5.3.2 Muslim women in Orientalims
2.6 Conclusion
CHAPTER THREE: Research Methods and Methodology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 British National press
3.2.1 About the Telegraph
3.2.2Online journalism
3.3 Data collection
3.3.1 Rationale of the Study
3.3.2 Research Questions
3.4 Research Methods
3.4.1 Corpus Linguistics
3.4.1.1 Definition corpus linguistics (CL)
3.4.1.2 Using Corpora in Discourse Studies
3.4.1.3 Corpus Tools
3.4.1.4 Corpus Software Packages
3.4.2 Systemic Functional Linguistics
3.4.2.1 Choice and Meaning
3.4.2.2 Language Functions
3.4.2.3 Rank
3.4.2.4 Context and Situation
3.4.2.5 Transitivity Systems
3.4.3 Fiarclough’s Three Dimensional Framework
3.4.3.1. Description
3.4. 3. 2 Interpretation
3.4.3.3 Explanation
3.5 Conclusion
Chapter 4: The Telegraph Linguistic and Discursive Representation of Muslim
Women and their Issues
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Muslim Women Telegraph Corpus
4.3 Keyword Analysis
4.4 Keyword in Context: a Concordance Analysis
4.4.1 Veil and Dress
4.4.2 Court and Law
4.4.3 Terrorism
4.5 Transitivity Analysis of the node ‘Muslim Women’
4.5.1 Distribution of the node ‘Muslim Women’ in Process Types
4.5.1.1 Muslim Women in Material Clauses
4.5.1.2 Muslim women in Verbal Clauses
4.5.1.3 Muslim Women in Mental Clauses
4.6 Discussion of the Results
4.7 Conclusion
Chapter 5: The Daily Telegraph Hidden Ideologies about Muslim Women
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Headline Analysis and identification of main topics
5.3Description, Interpretation and Explanation of the DT Muslim Women Articles
5.3.1 Description
5.3.1.1 Experiential Values of Lexical Items
5.3.1.2 Experiential Values of Grammatical Features
5.3.2Interpretation
5.3.3 Explanation
5.3.3.1 Situational Context
5.3.3.2 Institutional Context
5.3.4 Summary of the Results
5.4 Conclusion
General Conclusion
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