The construction of Islam in the British and American Press 1998-2005 a corpus-based (keywords and collocates) analysis

April 2001 Robin Cook reports that Britain’s national dish is chicken tikka masala

September 2001 – terrorist attacks on US

July 2005 – terrorist attacks on UK

Data

• 87 million words of British news

• Broadsheets: The Business, The Guardian, The Independent & Independent on Sunday, The Observer, The Times & Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph & Sunday Telegraph

• Tabloids: The Daily Express & Sunday Express, The Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday, Daily Mirror & Sunday Mirror, The People, Daily Star & Sunday Star, The Sun

• 40 million words of American news: Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle

Freqencies of articles over time

Analysis

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