Critical discourse analysis of war reporting in the international press: the case of the Gaza war of 2008–2009

Amer, Mohammedwesam

doi:10.1057/s41599-017-0015-2

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“…Indeed, there was a purposeful language manipulation which goes in line with the hidden interpretations of the news articles as maintained by Ghannam (2012). Moreover, the study’s findings show resemblance to the findings of Amer (2017) in which the newspapers’ news telling was affected by their political orientations.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

“…Amer (2017) examined texts in four international newspapers to analyze how social actors are being represented in media coverage of the Gaza war 2008–2009. He claims that the political orientations of the newspapers have affected their news telling of Gaza war in the way that credit was given to Israeli agency in achieving ceasefire rather than to Palestinian agency.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Representations of Saudi Male’s Guardianship System and Women’s Freedom to Travel in Western Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Elyas

Aljabri

2020

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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There has been a tremendous interest in the Western media concerning the status of women in Saudi Arabia. The recent reform in women’s rights and guardianship system has Western media gone into motion frenzy. A few research has been done on the representation of Saudi women in Arabic newspapers, but there is a scarce of research in Western English newspapers to date. This article exercises a critical discourse analysis approach to investigate the language used in three famous Western newspapers to uncover the hidden ideologies behind the representation of Saudi women’s guardianship system. To this end, van Dijk’s (2004) analytical framework was employed to reveal the underlying ideologies of six reports by The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Toronto Star. The findings show that the three newspapers have expressed the notion of “otherness” in their descriptions of Saudi Arabia and Saudi women. Furthermore, the newspapers have shared the employment of consensus and negative other-presentation to portray Saudi women as being oppressed and subordinate.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Representations of Saudi Male’s Guardianship System and Women’s Freedom to Travel in Western Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Elyas

Aljabri

2020

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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“…According to Ritchie, Lewis, and Elam (2003), the data are selected because they contain features or characteristics significant to the topic, thus enabling a detailed understanding of the central themes in the study. Amer (2017) adds that the aim of purposive sampling is "to be reflective (if not strictly representative) of the population" (p. 4).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

#WelcomeRefugees: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Refugee Resettlement Initiative in Canadian News

Mustafa

Pilus

2020

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This study focuses on the frames utilized in the depiction of Syrian refugees and social and political actors involved in the Syrian resettlement in Canadian online news media. The role of the media is vital in portraying Syrian refugees' image and affects how the Canadian public perceives them. This paper focuses on utilizing the referential and predicational strategies introduced by the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) in framing the Syrian refugees, Liberal government, Conservative party, Canadians, and Canada (henceforth social and political actors). This study examines a total of 31 articles selected from three of the most visited Canadian news sites, namely, the Toronto Star, the Toronto Sun, and the National Post. News articles were collected beginning from the arrival of the first group of refugees in December 2015 and ending in March 2017, which marked the first anniversary of the refugees' arrival. The results obtained show that both liberal and conservative-leaning media utilized frames in ways that correspond with their ideological stance. In most cases, the limelight rarely focused on Syrian refugees. Instead, they were used as props to push the news source's ideological convictions and to condemn and shame the opposition. Therefore, it is understood, that the framing and portrayal of refugees in this narrow manner through discursive strategies obscures the complexity of the plight of Syrian refugees and depicts them as one-dimensional characters that audiences would either fear or pity.

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“…Despite there have been 10 elements for identifying social actors based on this analysis framework, this study merely adopted five elements, namely inclusion & exclusion, role allocation, genericisation & specification, individualization & assimilation and nomination & categorization (Van Leeuwen, 1996). The consideration of selecting those five elements was based on their appropriateness, relevancy and applicability to probe how social actors are represented (Amer, 2017). In the similar vein, such an analytical framework caters advantages, such as the categorization of the analysed data were based on socio-semantic meaning rather than lexicogrammatical features (Amer, 2017).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social actors in an Intercultural Communication classroom: A discursive lens of intercultural education

Abdullah¹,

Lulita²

2018

Indonesian JELT

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This study focused on how teachers and students as the social actors in an Intercultural Communication (IC) classroom were represented discursively. A video recording transcript of IC classroom activities at a state University in Indonesia was selected as the data source. The data source was rigorously analysed through van Leeuwen’s Socio-semantic inventory of social actors framework (Van Leeuwen, 1996). The main findings show that social actors in IC classroom can be categorised into two main thematic representations, namely positive and negative ones. disclosed that Hamzah as the representative of classroom presenters was represented as victimised, oppressed, intimidated and minoritised actor. Hamzah’s Mathematics teacher was depicted as an intolerant, dehumanising, discriminatory and oppressing actor. Hamzah’s Social Sciences teacher was illustrated as a racial, stereotyping, dominant and provoking actor. The Intercultural Communication teacher was delineated as the actor endeavoring to encourage his students to be tolerant, critical, supportive and open-minded people. Hamzah’s classmates in IC classroom were characterised as sympathetic, supportive, friendly and reactionary actors.

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Critical discourse analysis of war reporting in the international press: the case of the Gaza war of 2008–2009

Cited by 21 publications

References 27 publications

Representations of Saudi Male’s Guardianship System and Women’s Freedom to Travel in Western Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Representations of Saudi Male’s Guardianship System and Women’s Freedom to Travel in Western Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

#WelcomeRefugees: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Refugee Resettlement Initiative in Canadian News

Social actors in an Intercultural Communication classroom: A discursive lens of intercultural education

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