Framing Hijab in the European Mind: Press Discourse, Social Categorization and Stereotypes

Khir-Allah, Ghufran

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.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2022-05-26

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9789811616556

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-1653-2

Dimensions: 235.0cm x155.0cm

Pages: 275.0