15.549, Books: Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics: Richardson

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Date:  Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:08:07 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  (Mis)Representing Islam: Richardson

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Date:  Wed, 11 Feb 2004 10:08:07 -0500 (EST)
From:  paul at benjamins.com
Subject:  (Mis)Representing Islam: Richardson

Title: (Mis)Representing Islam
Subtitle: The racism and rhetoric of British broadsheet newspapers
Series Title: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 9

Publication Year: 2004
Publisher:	John Benjamins
		http://www.benjamins.com/
		http://www.benjamins.nl/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookidÚPSAC_9

Author: John E. Richardson, University of Sheffield

Hardback: ISBN: 1588114732, Pages: vi, 277 pp., Price: USD 107.00

Abstract:

(Mis)Representing Islam explores and illustrates how élite broadsheet
newspapers are implicated in the production and reproduction of
anti-Muslim racism. The book approaches journalistic discourse as the
inseparable combination of 'social practices', 'discursive practices'
and the 'texts' themselves from a perspective which fuses Critical
Discourse Analysis (CDA) with Edward Said's critique of
Orientalism. This framework enables Richardson to (re)contextualise
élite journalism within its professional, political, economic, social
and historic settings and present a critical and precise examination
of not only the prevalence but also the form and potential effects of
anti-Muslim racism. The book analyses the centrality of van Dijk's
ideological square and the significance and utility of stereotypical
topoi in representing Islam and Muslims, focusing in particular on the
reporting of Turkey, Pakistan, Iran, Israel/Palestine, Algeria, Iraq
and Britain.  This timely book should interest researchers and
students of racism, Islam, Journalism and Communications studies,
Rhetoric, and (Critical) Discourse Analysis.

Table of contents

List of figures, graphs and tables  ix
Acknowledgements  xi
Introduction  xiii
1. Islam, Orientalism and (racist) social exclusion  1--32
2. The discursive representation of Islam and Muslims  33--67
3. The ideological square I: 'Muslim negativity'  69--93
4. The ideological square II: 'The West' as civiliser  95--111
5. British Muslims: Difference, discord and threat in domestic
   reporting 113--153
6. The Iraq Debacle: The reporting of Iraq during the UNSCOM stand-off
   155--189
7. Conviction, truth, blame and a shifting agenda: The reporting of
   Algeria 191--225
8. Conclusion  227--233
Notes  235--243
Bibliography  245--256
Index of names  257--258
Index of subjects  259--262

Lingfield(s):	Discourse Analysis
		Pragmatics

Written In:	English (Language Code: ENG)

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