تمثيل المسلمين في برامج أمريكية مختارة للرسوم المتحركة: تحليل نقدي للخطاب

Rp-The Representation of Muslims in American Selected Anime TV Shows: A Critical Discourse Analysis.pdf

This study investigates a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the representation of Muslims in a three chosen American animated TV shows. It aims to expose the stereotype of Muslim characters in US media. Analyzing the formation of “self” and “other” in some chosen TV shows also reveals the hidden ideology of American media. It reveals the manner of “framing” and “profiling” specific scenes of the American media, and normalizing them in the viewer’s mind.
The research aims to provide answers to the following questions: (a) How are the sociological categories employed to describe Muslims as social actors in American animation TV shows? (b) How are the “Self” and the “Other” strategy utilized in the representation of Muslims in American animation TV shows? (c) What is the ideology behind the representation of Muslims in American animation TV shows?
The researcher employs an eclectic model for the analysis that combines Van Dijk’s (1998) ideological square theory and Van Leeuwen’s (2008) theory of the representation of the social actor in the analysis of the data.