71 Copyright © 2018, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Chapter 5 DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5622-0.ch005 ABSTRACT By presenting the case study of the Charlie Hebdo attack in news discourse, this chapter combines a semantic analysis of the most frequent frame-activating words through text linguistics tools with frame analysis, developed according to the model proposed by Entman in the news making context. The lin- guistic perspective adopted in this chapter combines the works by Fillmore and Congruity Theory. As shown in the present work, both linguistics and news framing benefit from such integration. INTRODUCTION “The social world is … a chameleon, or, to suggest a better metaphor, a kaleidoscope of potential re- alities, any of which can be readily evoked by altering the ways in which observations are framed and categorized” (Edelman, 1993, p.232). These significant words illuminate the importance of framing in research and the fundamental connection between the social world and the phenomenon at the center of this research: Van Eemeren (2010, p.126) argues that “framing always involves an interpretation of reality that puts the facts or events referred to in a certain perspective.” According to Entman (2004), no one can escape from framing: even journalists in news reporting, thought as objective, frame events, issues, and political actors. Indeed, as argued by Fowler (1996, p. 4), “news is a representation of the world in language” that reflects a fact and all the values and meanings attached to it. Not coincidentally, there is a lot of research on framing in different (and sometimes not compatible) disciplines and approaches (see for example the review in Dewulf et al., 2009). More often than not, the different approaches to framing are not in dialogue one with another. This work has the methodological ambition to integrate different but complementary traditions on frames and framing in order to shed light on how frames are created in news discourse. Framing in News Discourse: The Case of the Charlie Hebdo Attack Miriam Tribastone University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sara Greco Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland