Van Dijk's Model - The sermons will also be qualitatively analyzed by employing Van Dijk’s Ideological Square Model of US vs THEM with proposed indicators to seek answer of Question No. 2 of the study which as follows: How does positive self-representation operate in Muslim scholars’ religious discourse?
- By seeking answer of this question, the objective no. 2 of this study will be achieved. The objective 2 of this study is as follows: Unveil the positive self-representation in the religious discourse of Muslim scholars.
Cont… Van Dijk's Model (Van Dijk, 1998) - Emphasize positive things about Us
- Emphasize negative things about Them
- De-emphasize negative things about Us
- De-emphasize positive things about Them
Cont… - The Strategies or Indicators
- The strategies or indicators proposed by Van Dijk for the concept of US v/s THEM are positive self-representation and negative other representation, authority, disclaimer, evidentiality, comparison, polarization, euphemism, hyperbole, irony, victimization, generalization, pre-supposition, and warning.
- As discussed in Flowerdew (2005), with rigorous research designs, corpus linguistics methods can be an effective tool for discourse and genre research. Recent studies
- (Baker et al., 2008; Prentice & Hardie, 2009; Salama, 2011) have suggested several key advantages of applying corpus-driven methods in critical discourse studies including the reduction of research subjectivity and the triangulation of research data as well as the improvement of research validity through the incremental effect of discourse. In short, current trends in corpus linguistics seem to suggest that corpus-aided critical discourse analysis will become more common in the near future.
Cont… - Chen (2014) points out in his research that the recent trends in corpus linguistics indicate that corpus-aided critical discourse analysis will be a more prevalent approach in the near future.
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