Muzułmanie i islam w słoweńskim korpusie językowym

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to present the image of Islam and Muslims, which is presented by the biggest Slovene text corpus Gigafida. Modern text corpora are large and structured, electronically processed, sets of texts. They are used to search and analyze typical contexts, in which words and whole constructions occur, what is helpful in gaining information about the meaning and function of words. Consequently, language corpora can be used not only by linguists, but also by sociologists, ethnologists, etc. Slovene corpora Gigafida is used to analyze such words and phrases as Muslim, Muslims are, Islam is and Islam appears to be.