Abstract :
Media has an important role in directing the public perception toward certain
issues. The news article which produced by media indirectly shaped public
perception in perceiving certain issues. The aim of this study was to look at the
representation of Muslim in the U.S newspapers media in order to see how
Muslim was represented in the discourse. A descriptive qualitative method was
used in this research while the data were collected through library research and
analyzed using Fairclough?s three-dimensional model. In addition, corpus
linguistic tool was used in processing the data which consists of 30 news articles.
The findings show that Muslim was represented as the object of discrimination in
the discourse because of the influence of certain events in the society such as
terrorist attack. The results of this study are expected to give knowledge to the
readers on how media represent certain issues in the discourse.
Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis, muslim representation, three-dimensional
model