Understanding the ideological construction of the Gulf crisis in Arab media discourse: A critical discourse analytic study of the headlines of Al Arabiya English and Al Jazeera English

Kharbach, Mohamed

doi:10.1177/1750481320917576

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“…Van Dijk's "social cognition approach" found its way into several studies on Arab political issues. It has been used to investigate the ideologization of Arab media discourse with specific reference to the construction of the Gulf crisis in the headlines of Al Arabiya English and Al Jazeera English (Kharbach, 2020). The approach was also used to investigate how politicians participating in the May 2017 Arab-Islamic-American Summit in Riyadh presented themselves and others, and the techniques they employed to send ideological messages to their opponents and allies (Youssef and Albarakati, 2019).…”

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The Topoi of Mandela's Death in the Arabic Speaking Media: A Corpus-Based Political Discourse Analysis

2022

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The present study attempts a political discourse analysis of a spoken Arabic corpus on the death of Nelson Mandela. The corpus mainly consists of the coverage of some Arabic-speaking TV channels that was broadcasted in the aftermath of the announcement of Nelson Mandela's death in 2013. The discourse-historical approach was employed with a view to finding out the various topoi and ideologies deployed in the corpus. For this purpose, the spoken corpus used in this study was first transcribed using EUDICO Linguistic Annotator (ELAN), a transcription tool for multimodal texts. Afterward, the corpus was compiled using Sketch Engine to enable researchers to process the data automatically and hence to use different computational tools that can assist in finding the various topoi. A computational analysis using collocations, wordlists, N-grams, and concordance features can provide a more precise analysis of the various topoi in context and hence to uncover the ideologies of participants/politicians. The findings of the study showed that the corpus abounds in topoi that are not necessarily related to Mandela or his death, but they are rather related to heated political issues in various countries of the Middle East. Politicians have shifted their focus from the main topic which is the death of Nelson Mandela to conflicts and political plights in countries such as Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, and Palestine. Politicians have used the media coverage as a platform to express their feelings and to compare Mandela with the Arab leaders in their respective countries. The coverage has sometimes transcended speaking about Mandela to the deployment and projection of certain ideologies of the interviewees. Those ideologies are not only confined to one participant's country, but they are representative of the Arab identity and concerns at large.

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The Topoi of Mandela's Death in the Arabic Speaking Media: A Corpus-Based Political Discourse Analysis

2022

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“…Focusing on the ideological construction of the Gulf crisis in Arab media discourse Kharbach (2020), presents a textual and socio-cognitive of analysis of the media communication discourse. The researcher adopted a CDA of Van Dijk to discursively construct the subjective attitude of Aljazzera &Alarabia news articles.…”

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Ideological representation of fear and hope in online newspaper reports on COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

Al-Ghamdi¹

2021

Heliyon

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This study examines the ideological representation of fear and hope in online newspaper reports on COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia. The study adopts critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Van Dijk's tripartite framework of news text structure and production at microstructure level and Fairclough's insights on the interactivity between language and social cognition in the process of producing and interpreting texts. The data for this study is samples of online news on COVID-19 reported in two English Saudi website;Saudi Gazette and Arab News, six from each journal. The samples cover the period between March 4 and August 14, 2020, and are purposefully chosen to understand the language of the news reports on a specific issue over a period of time. A qualitative analysis of the data is carried out so that the perceived effect of the linguistic encoding of the news events is examined. The findings show that most of the reports on COVID-19 heavily rely on foregrounding evidentiality of statistics of new and cumulative infections as well as recoveries and deaths. Evidentiality strategy often overlaps with categorization strategy as proof of the threat of the virus which is broken down into units, each with its features and evidence. Authority strategy is used to support statistics with verifiable sources. Similarly, in representing hope to the populace, two strategies of evidentiality and authority are often used. Evidentiality strategy is employed to clear off doubts through for grounding statistics of growing recoveries, comparisons and underrepresentation of infection cases and mortalities and sometimes choice of verbs plays a role in imparting hope in the residents. Authority strategy is deployed in order to give some weight to the ideology inherent in the report.

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“…This study thus applies a critical discourse methodology to explore how the Al Jazeera News Group covered the war in Yemen, with particular reference to its attitudes towards the social actors involved, as well as examining whether the eruption of the Gulf crisis had any influence on its coverage of the war. This should provide insights into the articulation of ideology in Al Jazeera news reports based on thorough examination of the linguistic constructions used to communicate events, and the focus of this study is thus within the purview of critical discourse analysis (CDA) studies, adding to the body of existing literature on Arab media discourse as well as advancing the field of scholarship in this area (Abdulmajid, 2019;Ali and Omar, 2016;Al-Jenaibi, 2014;Al Nahed, 2016;Bazzi, 2009;Bosio, 2013;Damanhoury and Saleh, 2017;Douai, 2019;El-Nawawy and Strong, 2012;Ethelb, 2016;Fahmy and Al Emad, 2011;Kharbach, 2020;Lahlali, 2011;Paletz and Hafez, 2001;Zayani, 2019;Zeng and Tahat, 2012).…”

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A critical discourse analysis of Al Jazeera’s online coverage of the war in Yemen before and after the 5 June 2017 Gulf crisis

Alluhaidah¹

2023

Discourse & Communication

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In this study, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was utilised to examine the Al Jazeera Arabic news website with respect to its reports on the social actors in the Yemen war, particularly the KSA, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain coalition and the opposing Houthis, both before and after the Gulf crisis that occurred on 5 June 2017. The analysed data included a total of 32 news articles related to the war in Yemen, with 16 articles covering the period prior to the Crisis, from 2015 to 2017, and 16 covering the period following the onset of the crisis, from 2017 to 2019. The overall aim was to uncover the ideological implications of various linguistic elements, such as lexical choices, news headline creation, and de-legitimisation strategies, and the results revealed identifiable, distinct, and non-random changes in tone and angle of representation relating to the various social actors and their actions. Before the crisis, the coalition was represented positively while Houthis was presented negatively, while after the crisis, the tone towards these social actors was completely reversed. The various discursive strategies used in the articles across both periods thus show that the coverage of the Yemen crisis was intended to ideologically and politically guide readers’ understanding of the crisis.

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Understanding the ideological construction of the Gulf crisis in Arab media discourse: A critical discourse analytic study of the headlines of Al Arabiya English and Al Jazeera English

Cited by 10 publications

References 37 publications

The Topoi of Mandela's Death in the Arabic Speaking Media: A Corpus-Based Political Discourse Analysis

The Topoi of Mandela's Death in the Arabic Speaking Media: A Corpus-Based Political Discourse Analysis

Ideological representation of fear and hope in online newspaper reports on COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia

A critical discourse analysis of Al Jazeera’s online coverage of the war in Yemen before and after the 5 June 2017 Gulf crisis

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