The Discursive Representation of Social Groups through Lexical Choices in Headlines: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Western and Arab Online Reporting on Gaza War | ||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||
| Article 5, Volume 66, Issue 1, January 2019, Pages 95-128 PDF (587.34 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2019.132720 | ||
| Author | ||
| Hanan Mohamed Ahmed Sharaf Eldin Sharaf Eldin | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study offers a critical analysis of the representation of Israelis and Palestinians in headlines of the selected articles from Cable News Network (CNN), New York Times (NYT), Al-Ahram Weekly Online and Al Jazeera English online (AJE) coverage of the 2008 War on Gaza (Appendix 1). This analysis examines the way language is used to represent social actors involved in this conflict, and attempts to reveal the way lexical choices are politically and ideologically employed to affect the ideological stance of the reader. Headline analysis will be guided by Fairclough’s (2003) three – dimensional Critical Discourse analysis (CDA) framework, and van Leeuwen’s (2008) Social Actor Approach. In order to have a better understanding of media manipulation of its readers, certain aspects of the headline need to be addressed by trying to answer some questions such as: Which words are chosen to appear in the headline and what is the purpose of such choices? How are social actors represented through lexical choices? This analysis aims to compare the representation of Israeli and Palestinian actors in selected headlines of the four websites under study to show how political and ideological orientations of media organizations are reflected in discourse and the ideological construction of social actors | ||
| Keywords | ||
| CDA; headline; identity; ideology; lexical choices | ||
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