Theologising the discourse of representation through ‘faith’ and religion in football news

The paper examines the use of ‘faith’ in football through the analysis of the patterns of its co-occurrences in the corpus of football news articles in The Star, a local Malaysian English language newspaper. These articles have been produced by the local news authors who claim to be the faithful o...

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Main Authors: Nadhratunnaim Abas, Surinderpal Kaur
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14005/
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spelling ukm-140052020-01-23T23:42:46Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14005/ Theologising the discourse of representation through ‘faith’ and religion in football news Nadhratunnaim Abas, Surinderpal Kaur, The paper examines the use of ‘faith’ in football through the analysis of the patterns of its co-occurrences in the corpus of football news articles in The Star, a local Malaysian English language newspaper. These articles have been produced by the local news authors who claim to be the faithful of particular football teams. The use of ‘faith’ has been found to express and call for the allegiance towards the preferred teams which is addressed to the audience in general. In this sense, the overdetermined role of the authors as the news producers and the supporters of certain football teams may contribute to how they are represented in the media. Moreover, ‘faith’ has often been limited to religion and little is known about its use in sport and representation. Hencethe investigation is aimed at making sense of the meanings of ‘faith’ in the context of football to further unveil its role in the discourse of representation. The results reveal the co-occurrences of ‘faith’ with the vocabulary of religion simulating interdiscursive relations that strategise on theologising the representation of the news participants in attempts to legitimise the allegiance to particular sides in football naturally. Consequently, using faith of religion to call for faith in football may lead to the glorification and derogation of certain football teams that further influence their representation as ‘Us’ or ‘Them’. As this practice may also be accepted as a common practice indicating sports rivalry, it also makes ‘faith’ a naturalised code without appearing to be ideological. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14005/1/27653-110173-1-PB.pdf Nadhratunnaim Abas, and Surinderpal Kaur, (2019) Theologising the discourse of representation through ‘faith’ and religion in football news. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 25 (3). pp. 150-163. ISSN 0128-5157 http://ejournals.ukm.my/3l/issue/view/1218
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description The paper examines the use of ‘faith’ in football through the analysis of the patterns of its co-occurrences in the corpus of football news articles in The Star, a local Malaysian English language newspaper. These articles have been produced by the local news authors who claim to be the faithful of particular football teams. The use of ‘faith’ has been found to express and call for the allegiance towards the preferred teams which is addressed to the audience in general. In this sense, the overdetermined role of the authors as the news producers and the supporters of certain football teams may contribute to how they are represented in the media. Moreover, ‘faith’ has often been limited to religion and little is known about its use in sport and representation. Hencethe investigation is aimed at making sense of the meanings of ‘faith’ in the context of football to further unveil its role in the discourse of representation. The results reveal the co-occurrences of ‘faith’ with the vocabulary of religion simulating interdiscursive relations that strategise on theologising the representation of the news participants in attempts to legitimise the allegiance to particular sides in football naturally. Consequently, using faith of religion to call for faith in football may lead to the glorification and derogation of certain football teams that further influence their representation as ‘Us’ or ‘Them’. As this practice may also be accepted as a common practice indicating sports rivalry, it also makes ‘faith’ a naturalised code without appearing to be ideological.
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author Nadhratunnaim Abas,
Surinderpal Kaur,
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Surinderpal Kaur,
Theologising the discourse of representation through ‘faith’ and religion in football news
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Surinderpal Kaur,
author_sort Nadhratunnaim Abas,
title Theologising the discourse of representation through ‘faith’ and religion in football news
title_short Theologising the discourse of representation through ‘faith’ and religion in football news
title_full Theologising the discourse of representation through ‘faith’ and religion in football news
title_fullStr Theologising the discourse of representation through ‘faith’ and religion in football news
title_full_unstemmed Theologising the discourse of representation through ‘faith’ and religion in football news
title_sort theologising the discourse of representation through ‘faith’ and religion in football news
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2019
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14005/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14005/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14005/1/27653-110173-1-PB.pdf
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