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Abstract
The current study investigated the representation of the Islamists in ten news reports published in seven Egyptian government-funded, privately-owned, and partisan newspapers. The main objective of the study was to find out if the journalists positively or negatively represented the Islamists and whether their representation was biased and prejudiced. It also investigated the influence of the journalists’ positive/negative representation of the Islamists on the schema of the news story, lexicalization, in addition to the journalists’ use of the transitivity system and nominalization.
The first research question in this study concerns how the Islamists were represented in Egyptian news reports, in accordance with van Dijk’s (1998) ideological square. Analysis of the data in this study reveals that the journalists, whether belonging to government-funded, privately-owned or partisan newspapers, represented a negative image of the Islamists, and followed the second principle of Dijk’s (1998) ideological square by emphasizing information that is negative about the Islamists (i.e., Them). The journalists emphasized the negativity of the Islamists by