132 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts
(NRC Handelsblad). Given that many of the words in the post-9/11 (evolv-
ing) lexical field of terrorism refer to 9/11 directly, the higher difference for
the stable fields probably means that Algemeen Dagblad distinguishes itself
most by often using together words referring to Islam and words referring
to terrorism in general (as opposed to more specific events). Algemeen
Dagblad also shows the highest relatedness between the lexical field of
Islam and that of war. This is no surprise: not only are war and terrorism
clearly related themselves; the post-9/11 (evolving) fields also show a con-
siderable overlap in words.
Table 6. Average distance between the lexical field of islam and those of terrorism,
war, religion and culture for all five newspapers
evolving fields stable fieldsTerrorism
Algemeen Dagblad 4.42 (1) 3.40 (1)
NRC Handelsblad 4.60 (4) 3.73 (5)
Het Parool 4.56 (3) 3.57 (4)
Trouw 4.73 (5) 3.68 (3)
Volkskrant 4.53 (2) 3.66 (2)
War
Algemeen Dagblad 4.49 (1) 4.74 (1)
NRC Handelsblad 4.67 (4) 4.91 (3)
Het Parool 4.60 (2) 4.91 (3)
Trouw 4.75 (5) 4.89 (2)
Volkskrant 4.64 (3) 4.94 (5)
Religion
Algemeen Dagblad 3.10 (4) 3.41 (5)
NRC Handelsblad 2.76 (2) 2.68 (1)
Het Parool 3.18 (5) 3.07 (4)
Trouw 2.68 (1) 3.02 (3)
Volkskrant 2.93 (3) 2.87 (2)
Culture
Algemeen Dagblad 4.37 (3) 5.20 (3)
NRC Handelsblad 4.18 (2) 5.00 (2)
Het Parool 4.62 (5) 5.54 (5)
Trouw 3.95 (1) 4.71 (1)
Volkskrant 4.25 (4) 5.24 (4)