Fundamentalist and tolerant islamic discourse in john updike’s terrorist and jonathan wright’s translation the televangelist
A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of semantic prosody
Keywords:
corpus-based, critical discourse, islamic discourse, semantic prosody, terroristAbstract
Corpus-based critical discourse analysis studies have gained momentum in the last decade. Corpus Linguistics allowed critical discourse analysts to avoid bias in data selection and enlarge their samples for more representative findings. Critical Discourse Analysis, on the other hand, gave depth to corpus linguistic analysis by contextualizing it. The present study combines the two approaches to analyze the semantic prosody of Islamic keywords common to John Updike's Terrorist published in 2006 and Jonathan Wright’s translation The Televangelist published in 2016. The results of corpus-based analysis show that while the semantic prosody of Islamic keywords is negative in Updike’s novel, it is highly positive in the translated novel. The conclusion is that Van Dijk’s proposition of the polarized representation of ‘us’ versus ‘them’ holds for Updike’s fundamentalist Islamic discourse which negatively represents Islam and Muslims. However, Van Dijk’s proposition holds only partially for Wright's tolerant Islamic discourse which positively represents Islam and Muslims without misrepresenting the other.
Downloads
References
Abid, R. Z., & Manan, S. A. (2015). Integrating corpus linguistics in critical literacy pedagogy: A case study of Lance Armstrong's transformation from a titleholder to a fraud. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 208, 128-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.11.189
Archer, D. (Ed.). (2009). What's in a word-list?: investigating word frequency and keyword extraction. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd..
Augoustinos, M., & Every, D. (2010). Accusations and denials of racism: Managing moral accountability in public discourse. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926509360650
Azhari, A. S., Priono, -, & Nuriadi, -. (2018). Speech Acts of Classroom Interaction. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, 4(2), 24-45.
Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C., Khosravinik, M., Krzyżanowski, M., McEnery, T., & Wodak, R. (2008). A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press. Discourse & society, 19(3), 273-306. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0957926508088962
Chiluwa, I. (2012). Online religion in Nigeria: The internet church and cyber miracles. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 47(6), 734-749.
Downs, G. W., & Jones, M. A. (2002). Reputation, compliance, and international law. The Journal of Legal Studies, 31(S1), S95-S114.
Edwards, M., & Milani, T. M. (2014). The everyday life of sexual politics: A feminist critical discourse analysis of herbalist pamphlets in Johannesburg. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 32(4), 461-481. https://doi.org/10.2989/16073614.2014.999991
Essa, I. (2016). The Televangelist. (J. Wright, Trans.). Cairo: AUC Press.
Fitri, -, Mahyuni, -, & Sudirman, -. (2018). Schematic of humorous discourse of stand-up comedy in Indonesia. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2(3), 107-116. https://doi.org/10.29332/ijssh.v2n3.213
Flowerdew, J., & Miller, L. (1997). The teaching of academic listening comprehension and the question of authenticity. English for specific purposes, 16(1), 27-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0889-4906(96)00030-0
Freake, R., Gentil, G., & Sheyholislami, J. (2011). A bilingual corpus-assisted discourse study of the construction of nationhood and belonging in Quebec. Discourse & Society, 22(1), 21-47. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0957926510382842
Hardt-Mautner, G. (1995). " Only Connect": Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics. Lancaster: UCREL.
Hartnell, A. (2011). Violence and the Faithful in Post-9/11 America: Updike's Terrorist, Islam, and the Specter of Exceptionalism. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 57(3), 477-502. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2011.0066
Henry, F., & Tator, C. (2002). Discourses of domination: Racial bias in the Canadian English-language press. University of Toronto Press.
Hunston, S. (2007). Semantic prosody revisited. International journal of corpus linguistics, 12(2), 249-268. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.12.2.09hun
Huntington, S. P. (1993). The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs 72.
Iswanto, -, Riana, I. K., Simpen, I. W., & Ola, S. S. (2018). Supernatural signification system amuf on death ritual speech nen fen nahat neu nitu in boti society. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, 4(2), 46-57.
Jackson, R. (2007). Constructing enemies:‘Islamic terrorism’in political and academic discourse. Government and Opposition, 42(3), 394-426. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1477-7053.2007.00229.x
Jaworska, S., & Krishnamurthy, R. (2012). On the F word: A corpus-based analysis of the media representation of feminism in British and German press discourse, 1990–2009. Discourse & Society, 23(4), 401-431. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0957926512441113
Jeffries, L., & Evans, M. (2013). The rise of choice as an absolute ‘good’: a study of British manifestos (1900-2010). SRC Working Papers, 5, 1-24.
Jurgaitis, N. (2018). Economic crisis as a supernatural being in public discourse. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, 4(2), 66-71.
Kawangung, Y. (2019). Religious moderation discourse in plurality of social harmony in Indonesia. International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 3(1), 160-170. https://doi.org/10.29332/ijssh.v3n1.277
KhosraviNik, M. (2008). British newspapers and the representations of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants between 1996 and 2006.
Lindayana, -, Arifuddin, -, & Mandala, H. (2018). Divergent Principles of Politeness in Verbal and Non-Verbal Directive Speech Act. International Research Journal of Engineering, IT & Scientific Research, 4(2), 41-51.
Lippi, M., & Torroni, P. (2016). Argumentation mining: State of the art and emerging trends. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 16(2), 10. https://doi.org/10.1145/2850417
Louw, B. (1993). Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies. Text and technology: In honour of John Sinclair, 240, 251.
Louw, B. (2000). Contextual prosodic theory: Bringing semantic prosodies to life. Words in context: A tribute to John Sinclair on his retirement, 48-94.
MacDonald, M. N., & Hunter, D. (2013). Security, Population and Governmentality: UK Counter-terrorism Discourse (2007-2011). Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, 7(1).
Mahlberg, M., & McIntyre, D. (2011). A case for corpus stylistics. English Text Construction, 4(2), 204-227. https://doi.org/10.1075/etc.4.2.03mah
Morrison, A., & Love, A. (1996). A discourse of disillusionment: Letters to the editor in two Zimbabwean magazines 10 years after independence. Discourse & Society, 7(1), 39-75. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0957926596007001003
Mulderrig, J. (2008). Using keywords analysis in CDA: Evolving discourses of the knowledge economy in education. In Education and the knowledge-based economy in Europe (pp. 147-169). Brill Sense. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789087906245_009
Mulderrig, J. (2011). Manufacturing Consent: A corpus‐based critical discourse analysis of New Labour's educational governance. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 43(6), 562-578. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00723.x
Murphy, P. E. (2013). Tourism: A community approach (RLE Tourism). Routledge.
Nartey, M., & Mwinlaaru, I. N. (2019). Towards a decade of synergizing corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis. Corpora: corpus-based language learning, language processing and linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366%2Fcor.2019.0169
Nartey, M., & Mwinlaaru, I. N. (2019). Towards a decade of synergizing corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis: A meta-analysis. Corpora: corpus-based language learning, language processing and linguistics. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366%2Fcor.2019.0169
O'Halloran, K. L. (2008). Systemic functional-multimodal discourse analysis (SF-MDA): Constructing ideational meaning using language and visual imagery. Visual communication, 7(4), 443-475. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1470357208096210
Partington, A. (2004). " Utterly content in each other's company" Semantic prosody and semantic preference. International journal of corpus linguistics, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.9.1.07par
Pearce, D. (2014). Blueprint 3: Measuring sustainable development. Routledge.
Prasetyo, H. (2017). Euphemism in oral dialect speech ngeto-ngete district suralaga. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, 3(1), 65-74.
Prentice, S., & Hardie, A. (2009). Empowerment and disempowerment in the Glencairn Uprising: A corpus-based critical analysis of Early Modern English news discourse. Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 10(1), 23-55. https://doi.org/10.1075/jhp.10.1.03pre
Schröter, M., & Storjohann, P. (2015). Patterns of discourse semantics: A corpus-assisted study of financial crisis in British newspaper discourse in 2009. Pragmatics and Society, 6(1), 43-66. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.6.1.03sch
Simon‐Vandenbergen, A. M. (2000). The functions of I think in political discourse. International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 10(1), 41-63. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1473-4192.2000.tb00139.x
Sinclair, J. (2004). Trust the text. In Trust the text (pp. 19-33). Routledge.
Sinclair, J. M. (1996). The Search for Units of Meaning'. Textus IX: 75-106. Reprinted in lohn Sinclair (2004) Trust the Text: Language, Corpus and Discourse.
Skalicky, S. (2013). Was this analysis helpful? A genre analysis of the Amazon. com discourse community and its “most helpful” product reviews. Discourse, Context & Media, 2(2), 84-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2013.04.001
Sotillo, S. M., & Starace-Nastasi, D. (1999). Political discourse of a working-class town. Discourse & Society, 10(2), 249-276. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0957926599010002006
Spencer, H. (2011). Semantic Prosody in Literary Analysis: A Corpus‐based Stylistic Study of HP Lovecraft’s stories (Doctoral dissertation, University of Huddersfield).
Subtirelu, N. (2013). What (do) learners want (?): a re-examination of the issue of learner preferences regarding the use of ‘native’speaker norms in English language teaching. Language Awareness, 22(3), 270-291. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658416.2012.713967
Suyanu, -, Rusdiawan, -, & Sumerep, A. Z. (2017). The use of language elements in the creation of coherences in discourse. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture, 3(5), 101-108.
Taylor, T. L. (2009). Play between worlds: Exploring online game culture. Mit Press.
Thomas, S. (2011). Outtakes and Outrage: The Means and Ends of Suicide Terror. MFS Modern Fiction Studies, 57(3), 425-449. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2011.0062
Törnberg, A., & Törnberg, P. (2016). Muslims in social media discourse: Combining topic modeling and critical discourse analysis. Discourse, Context & Media, 13, 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2016.04.003
Triebl, E. (2015). ... or not to be. The Strategic and Non-Strategic Use of Negative Identifiers in Online Forums. AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 247-270.
Van Dijk, T. A. (1993). Elite discourse and racism (Vol. 6). Sage.
Van Dijk, T. A. (1995). Discourse semantics and ideology. Discourse & society, 6(2), 243-289. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0957926595006002006
Van Dijk, T. A. (2001). 18 Critical discourse analysis. The handbook of discourse analysis, 349-371.
Van Dijk, T. A. (2001). Multidisciplinary CDA: A plea for diversity. Methods of critical discourse analysis, 1, 95-120.
Wodak, R., & Meyer, M. (2009). Critical discourse analysis: History, agenda, theory and methodology. Methods of critical discourse analysis, 2, 1-33.
Wodak, R., & Meyer, M. (2009). Critical discourse analysis: History, agenda, theory and methodology. Methods of critical discourse analysis, 2, 1-33.
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
Articles published in the International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Culture (IJLLC) are available under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives Licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant IJLLC right of first publication under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of articles in this journal, and to use them for any other lawful purpose.
Articles published in IJLLC can be copied, communicated and shared in their published form for non-commercial purposes provided full attribution is given to the author and the journal. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal.
This copyright notice applies to articles published in IJLLC volumes 6 onwards. Please read about the copyright notices for previous volumes under Journal History.
