Gauging the Media Discourse and the Roots of Islamophobia Awareness in Spain

This article analyses the media discourse about Islamophobia in Spain. Specifically, an overview of all appearances term four Spanish newspapers (ABC, El Mundo, País, and La Vanguardia) is provided with aim finding out when was first used became standard language. The study also demonstrates links public interest identifies ideological terminological attitudes each newspaper. corpus includes 1475 news articles since reference (in 1987) to May 2022, which were quantitatively examined two steps. While manual served document historical background, second allowed us monitor content by means Sketch Engine. Furthermore, searches for “islamofobia” Google Trends from Spain reviewed. main findings show that both terrorist attacks Western countries controversies surrounding freedom speech are key emergence normalisation concept, particularly 2015. However, newspaper differs, País covering topic most frequently. left-wing offers some notable variations terminology as well. three right-wing consistently relate threat, vocabulary underpins victimisation Arab-Islamic population. According Engine analysis, usual terms occur combination racism, terrorism, violence, hate, anti-semitism, xenophobia. Finally, data confirmed peak Barcelona Cambrils (17A).