27.3091, Diss: Discourse Analysis: Ahmed Qadoury Abed: 'A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Reproduction of Anti-Prophet Muhammad Media in Selected British and American Newspapers'

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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 11:36:48
From: Ahmed Abed [ahmedqadouryabed at gmail.com]
Subject: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Reproduction of Anti-Prophet Muhammad Media in Selected British and American Newspapers

 
Institution: University of Baghdad 
Program: PHD Program (Linguistics) 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2015 

Author: Ahmed Qadoury Abed

Dissertation Title: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Reproduction of
Anti-Prophet Muhammad Media in Selected British and
American Newspapers 

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis


Dissertation Director(s):
Hana Khleif Ghani
Hashim Eleiwi Muhammad

Dissertation Abstract:

The present study is a critical discourse analysis of the reproduction of
three of these printed and social media controversies, namely the Danish
Cartoon Controversy (2005), the US film Innocenceof Muslims (2012), and the
French Caricatures (2012) in selected British and American newspapers. The
suggested terms 'Anti-Prophet Muhammad Media' and 'Anti-Prophet Muhammad
Agenda’ are used to entitle these three controversies which deliberately aimed
to insult the Prophet by presenting him disgraceful positions. The study aims
at investigating the linguistic and ideological aspects of the reproduction of
these three controversies in The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The New York Times,
and USA Today. It also aims at identifying how ideology is represented in the
selected newspapers.

For these aims, four hypotheses are set up : (1) Similarities and differences
tend to come out in the reproduction of Anti-Prophet media in the language of
the selected British and American newspapers, (2) Being allies in their wars
and other political conflicts, the US and the UK’s ideology is represented
similarly in the selected British and American newspapers, (3) The selected
three controversies tend to reveal different agenda and propaganda, and
(4)Anti-Prophet Muhammad controversy is outstanding enough to be a valid
substitute to other controversies like Anti-Communism and Anti-Semitism. Based
on qualitative and quantitative procedures, data gathered from 24 articles
from the selected newspapers will be analysed linguistically and then
ideologically according to an eclectic model  derived from Van Dijk's theory
of news analysisin News Analysis(1988a)and News as Discourse (1988b), Van
Dijk's theory of Ideological Square in Ideology: A Multidisciplinary
Approach(1998), Fairclough's Intertextuality (2003) and Jowett & O'Donnell's
Propaganda Model (2012). 

The main conclusions of the present study are the following: (1) the four
hypotheses of the present study have been validated; (2) The reproduction of
the European controversies have shown that they were based upon an
integration-agitation agenda and an explicit propaganda aiming at moving Islam
from positive multiculturalism into negative civic integration, while the US
controversy upon a public diplomacy agenda and an implicit  propaganda; (3)
Anti-Prophet Muhammad Media show that positive properties and coverage have
been collocated with Western secularism (in Europe and the US) while negative
depicting has deliberately been used to characterise the Prophet Muhammad,
Muslim communities and Islamists;  (4) The ideological squares have shown that
the classification of Muslims, Islam, and the Prophet as the Other is valid; 
and (5) The critical discourse analysis has shown that Islam has been
portrayed as a political ideology and is used for political or military
advantage, with no single mentioning to any positive aspect. For example, both
Islam and Christianity were treated in a relatively- biased manner; the
majority of situations that Islam mentioned in were related to violence,
conflict, civil crises, public killing, destruction of civil and political
offices, and boycotting. Christianity, on the other hand, was associated with
innocent killed people, calls for peace, and forms of civilized life.




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