Анализ лексической сочетаемости лексемы «ислам» в российских печатных СМИ (2010–2013)

Исламоведение. 2017. Т. 8. № 1. С. 112–130.

Ragozina S. A.

The paper presents the results of an empirical study into the discourse on Islam in the contemporary Russian press. The research was made in the framework of critical discourse analysis using the tools of corpus-based linguistics. The corpus includes 9, 822 articles on Islamic issues from six Russian national newspapers covering the period from January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2013: Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Kommersant, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Moskovsky Komsomolets, Nezavisimaya Gazeta, and Novaya Gazeta. The AntConc software was used for the search of collocations, concordances and other terms. Key-word analysis of each newspaper revealed the structure of the discourse on Islam and its semantic core. The collocation and n-gram functions were used to reveal the cooccurrence range of the term Islam. According to the author, the negative image of Islam is produced on account of a large number of contexts for the word Islam. In general, it is based on the emphasis on the word’s political, rather than religious associations. In the print madia discourse, the concept of Islam includes such images as political actors, prepared to use violent methods in order to achieve their goals, as well as the ideology that justifies their actions. The negative image of Islam is created through the representation of Islam as a paramilitary, aggressive phenomenon. The author has also traced a clear semantic prosody that can be illustrated by the traditional vs radical Islam dichotomy.   

Keywords: дискурс-анализ, корпусная лингвистика, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, исламоведение, Islamic studies, Image of Islam, образ ислама