Governing Terrorism through News Discourse: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Xinhua’s Reporting on the Islamic State (2014–2019)

Zhang, Qiang (2026) Governing Terrorism through News Discourse: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of Xinhua’s Reporting on the Islamic State (2014–2019). PhD thesis, University of Sheffield.

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Supervisors: Ahmad, Jared and Madrid-Morales, Dani
Publicly visible additional information: This thesis analyses Xinhua’s English-language reporting on the Islamic State from an academic perspective in media and discourse studies. The research is conducted solely for scholarly purposes and does not endorse any political position, ideology, organisation, or movement discussed in the thesis.
Keywords: terrorism; de-religionisation; China's state media; governance; discourse analysis; corpus linguistics; media representations; security discourse
Awarding institution: University of Sheffield
Academic Units: The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield)
The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Journalism (Sheffield)
Academic unit: School of Information, Journalism and Communication
Date Deposited: 27 May 2026 11:35
Last Modified: 27 May 2026 11:35
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