Overview
- Uses innovative cognitive linguistic theories and conceptual metaphors
- Includes a comprehensive analysis of over 108 news articles in the Spanish and British media
- Provides a discourse analysis of hijab visibility in the Spanish and British press
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Politics of the European Muslim Women’s Identity: Challenging the Public Discourse and National Sign System
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Framing the National Hijab in the European Mind (Spanish and British Cases)
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Conclusion
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Keywords
- European Muslim Women
- Muslim Women in Europe
- Muslim Women in Spain
- Muslim Women in Britain
- Social Exclusion
- Social Equality
- Constructing a European Multi-Identity
- Social Diversity in Europe
- Religious Signs at Public Schools
- Politics and the Hijab
- 2004 French Ban
- Hijab Visibility
- Mental Frames and Press Discourse
- Conceptual Metaphors
- Feminism and the Hijab
- Cognitive Linguistic Theories
- British Press
- Spanish Press
- Social Psychology
- secularism
About this book
This book compares how British and Spanish media have covered the French ban on hijab wearing in public schools. Using interdisciplinary approaches ranging from social psychology, semiology, cognitive linguistics and sociology, it seeks to explain how the hijab is interpreted as a sign by the mainstream culture, and hijab-wearing Muslim sub-culture.
Based on an analysis of 108 articles published in the national newspaper from each context, this comparative study operates on two levels: a micro-level analysis of within-culture variations between mainstream culture and the hijab-wearing women; and a macro-level analysis of the cross-cultural variation between the British context and the Spanish one. The result is a profound insight into how each discourse reveals the different level of social integration of hijab-wearing women in these two different contexts.
The Analysis methodology combines between Critical Discourse Analysis CDA, Conceptual Metaphor Theory CMT, and Cognitive Linguistics CL. The book introduces a novel analysis methodology for social and linguistic sciences. It is the Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis methodology CCDA.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Ghufran KhirAllah is a professor of sociolinguistics in Nebrija University of Madrid. She is also a post-doctoral researcher at Complutense University of Madrid. Her research focuses on European political and public discourse around hijab-wearing women in the public sphere. Dr. KhirAllah has developed a strong academic and empirical background on how group minorities or majorities identify their belonging, and how they go through integration and multi-identity challenges.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Framing Hijab in the European Mind
Book Subtitle: Press Discourse, Social Categorization and Stereotypes
Authors: Ghufran Khir-Allah
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1653-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1652-5Published: 25 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-1655-6Published: 26 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-1653-2Published: 24 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 275
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Culture and Gender, Secularism, European Politics, Politics and Religion, Cultural Anthropology