Send us your feedback     The Representation of Islam and
Muslims in the UK Press, 1998-2008    • Start date: 01 September
2009   • End date: 30 November 2010  This project will look at
the representation of Muslims and Islam in British newspapers
from 1998-2008. In doing so it will use corpus based Critical
Discourse Analysis (Baker et al, 2008).  The following research
questions will be addressed:    1. What differences exist
between the ways that British newspapers (individually and
collectively) use language to represent Muslims and Islam?
Specifically, what grammatical and lexical patterns are evident
(eg collocations, keywords, clusters, subject-object relations
and metaphors).   2. In what ways have UK newspaper
representations of Muslims/Islam changed between 1998 and 2008?
3. Are Muslims treated as a homogeneous group by the UK press?
If not, what sub-groups are constructed and how are they
represented?   4. To what extent is Islam treated only as a
religion; are Muslims treated only as (a) religio