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This is an interdisciplinary project that builds on scholarship in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Corpus Linguistics (CL), and studies in multimodality. The main objective of this study is to investigate the discursive construction of the social identity of Arab-American gro…

This thesis argues that there is a discursive construction of Muslim identity in the United States which is implicit and informs our understanding without being critically examined. I utilize the theoretical construction of Edward Said which he called Orientalism to argue that t…