Islam utifrån svensk nyhetsrapportering : En kritisk diskursanalys av Svenska Dagbladet och Dagens Nyheter

Sammanfattning: The survey is a critical discourse analysis of text analytic ambition where I study how Muslims and Islam are portrayed in Swedish media during the period September 2015 - May 2016.The research is based on forty newspaper articles from the nationwide newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter. To read the discourses that prevail in the articles, I take the starting point in Edward Said's theory of Orientalism. The theory deals with the West's view of "the Orient" and how Muslims and Islam are portrayed as the alien in contrast to the Western world. To achieve my purpose, I review the text based tools Etos and Modality which I combine with the theory of Orientalism. The analysis shows that there is a negative discourse of portraits of Muslims and Islam. The discourse is not dominant but represent a significant role in the material. Islam is associated in these cases with violence, terror and costs, but it is also to some extent associated with positive attributes.