Muslims in the Bulgarian and the British Press: The Multifarious Image of the Religious Other

Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva, Desislava

  • 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-29
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 233
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 3031711033
  • ISBN-13: 9783031711039
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商品描述

This book compares the ways in which the national media in two different countries construct (frame) and develop the image of the religious other, in this case Muslims in all their variety. Although it introduces concepts such as race and racism, otherness, Orientalism and Islamophobia, which may be familiar to the majority of readers, in this manuscript they serve the purpose of a comparative analysis which has not been done on the subject to date. The manuscript analyzes the thematic distribution of the articles, as well as the definitions, metaphors and stereotypes used, thus presenting a complete and diverse image of Muslims along with the similarities and differences in the thinking patterns employed by Bulgarians and British on the subject and expressed in the respective mainstream media. In this respect the manuscript fills a void in the scholarly literature on the ways the media discourses in two very different countries present the image of a religious group. Here we can even talk about the existing divide between East and West and the changing perception of the religious Other fostered by the general digitalization and free flow of information.

As English is an international language it undeniably makes access to information easier, however, there are not many culture specific studies presenting the current state of a problem or the analyses on that particular topic (the image of Muslims) in that international medium. Therefore, the manuscript aims at introducing English speaking scholars, students, media people, and generally everyone interested in the topic, to the Bulgarian way of seeing, depicting and talking about Muslims. As stated above, the manuscript draws parallels between the language used by the Bulgarian and the British media, thus providing a similar starting point as the majority of the potential readers are probably more familiar with the latter. In addition, scholars working extensively with other local cultures and/or media and resorting to English as a medium for the popularization of their research, can use the presented analytical frame to their specific analyses and contribute even further to the enrichment of the global data base on the topic.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書比較了兩個不同國家的國家媒體如何構建(框架)和發展宗教他者的形象,在這個案例中是各種不同的穆斯林。雖然它引入了種族和種族主義、他者性、東方主義和伊斯蘭恐懼等概念,這些對大多數讀者來說可能是熟悉的,但在這篇手稿中,它們的目的是進行一項迄今為止尚未對該主題進行的比較分析。手稿分析了文章的主題分佈,以及所使用的定義、隱喻和刻板印象,從而呈現出穆斯林的完整而多樣的形象,以及保加利亞人和英國人在該主題上所採用的思維模式的相似性和差異,並在各自的主流媒體中表達出來。在這方面,手稿填補了學術文獻中關於兩個截然不同國家的媒體話語如何呈現一個宗教群體形象的空白。在這裡,我們甚至可以談論東西方之間的現有鴻溝,以及由於一般數位化和信息自由流通而促進的對宗教他者的變化認知。

英語作為一種國際語言,無疑使獲取信息變得更容易,然而,針對該問題當前狀態或該特定主題(穆斯林形象)的文化特定研究並不多。因此,手稿旨在向英語學者、學生、媒體工作者以及所有對該主題感興趣的人介紹保加利亞人看待、描繪和談論穆斯林的方式。如上所述,手稿在保加利亞媒體和英國媒體所使用的語言之間畫出平行線,從而提供一個相似的起點,因為大多數潛在讀者可能對後者更為熟悉。此外,廣泛研究其他地方文化和/或媒體的學者,並以英語作為其研究普及的媒介,可以將所呈現的分析框架應用於他們的具體分析,進一步豐富該主題的全球數據庫。

作者簡介

Associate Professor Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva, PhD received her PhD from the University of Shumen, Bulgaria. She is the author of The Ethnic Other: The Image of Roma, Gypsies, and Travellers in the Bulgarian and the British Press (Asenevtsi, 2020). Her interests lie in the field of comparative linguistics, media studies and culture studies with focus on ethnicity, religion and identity.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

副教授德西斯拉瓦·切什梅德吉耶娃-斯托伊切娃(Desislava Cheshmedzhieva-Stoycheva)博士於保加利亞舒門大學獲得博士學位。她是《民族他者:保加利亞和英國媒體中的羅姆人、吉普賽人和旅行者形象》(The Ethnic Other: The Image of Roma, Gypsies, and Travellers in the Bulgarian and the British Press,Asenevtsi,2020)的作者。她的研究興趣包括比較語言學、媒體研究和文化研究,重點關注民族、宗教和身份。