scholarly journals THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION OF 2011 AND ITS AFTERMATH IN EDITORIALS HEADLINES: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE REPRESENTATION OF EGYPT IN AMERICAN AND BRITISH MEDIA EDITORIALS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 863-875
Author(s):  
Ayyad Echine
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The West ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Modes Of Thought

The Arab world, starting from December 2010 onward, has witnessed unprecedented revolutions during which many long-lasting Arab leaders were unseated. Western media has allotted much coverage to the uprisings especially in nations, such as Egypt, with which the West, namely the U.S, shares mutual political ambitions in the Middle East. This study analyses a sample of 101 editorials headlines that were written, between 2011 and 2018, by the NYT, the WP, the Guardian and the Telegraph and suggests that these papers treatment of the revolutions is reflective of Orientalist conceptualizations that inferiorize Egypt and the Egyptians. The study draws on Edward Saids postcolonial model of Orientalism (1978) to make sense of the selected sample and targets two main areas in critical media studies quantitative content analysis and critical discourse analysis (CDA), to uncover whether or not the four newspapers editorials headlines are suggestive of Orientalist modes of thought. The study concludes that the coverage under scrutiny connects the West with the East in a way that is characterized by power relations wherein the West is having the upper hand, and thus producing a rhetoric that is stereotypical and Orientalist.

Authenticity and discourses in Aladdin (1992)

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abderrahmene Bourenane
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The West ◽  
Cultural Transfer ◽  
Life Threatening

Since the first encounters between the East and the West, many Western artistic productions have been produced to introduce the Orient to the Occident. Antoine Galland’s translation of the oriental folkloric tales, known as One Thousand and One Nights marked a cultural transfer through introducing an exotic, colourful and adventurous, yet unsafe, life-threatening and mysterious image of the Orient. Scholars question the authenticity of the translation, and reject the true belonging of the tale of Aladdin’s Wonderful Lamp to the oriental cultural heritage suggesting its Western construction. This fabrication suggests the existence of several discourses that are to be unfolded with the critical discourse analysis of the pictorial and textual discourse of the tale and its several filmic adaptations. The tale was fully or partially adapted in several cinematographic productions during the last century. For example, while Aladin (1906) faithfully adapted part of the original tale, the 1992 version directed by Clements and Musker is a loosely inspiration perceived through an orientalist filter. The aim of this article is to investigate the authenticity and disclose the discourses concealed in Galland’s translation and its 1992 filmic adaptation, the critical discourse analysis in addition to Edward Saïd’s Orientalism provide the theoretical framework to analyse the excerpts from the translation and scenes from the film, in order to disclose the colonial, orientalist and feminist discourses they encapsulate.

Argumentation and fallacy in newspaper op / ed coverage of the prelude to the invasion of Iraq

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wilson ◽  
Ahmed Sahlane ◽  
Ian Somerville
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Argumentation Theory ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Brute Force ◽  
The West ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq

This study examines how the pre-war debate of the U.S. decision to invade Iraq was discursively constructed in pro- and anti-war newspaper op/ed argumentation. Drawing on insights from argumentation theory, and using these within a framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, we explore fallacious arguments within the ‘justification discourse’ used in the pro-war opinion/editorials (op/eds). We argue that the type of arguments marshalled by the pro-war op/ed commentators uncritically bolstered the set of U.S. official ‘truth claims’ and ‘presuppositions’. Conversely, anti-war op/ed debaters dismissed the Bush administration’s ‘neo-imperialistic’ reasoning and called into question the logic of militarist ‘humanitarianism’ by arguing that brute force and daylight ‘plunder,’ found in the language of a ‘noble ideal,’ were part of a long Western colonialist tradition that glorified the West as the ‘civiliser’ of distant cultural others.

scholarly journals CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS : SEEING THE MEDIA EDUCATION FROM CDA PERSPECTIVE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annisa Septiani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Practice ◽  
Know How ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media

This paper about critical discourse analysis in media education.Students have used mass media to help them to learn. They get any information from it. Although mass media can help the students to learn, mass media also has a bad effect. For that, the students must know how to critically mass media such as they know the theory of critical practice, critical media literacy and CDA in the education media

scholarly journals The Representation of (Illegal) Migrants in The British News

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolina Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Implicit Assumption ◽  
Daily Mail ◽  
Illegal Migrants ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Guardian

This research looks at how migration is represented in British newspapers by using multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) to examine two news articles published in July/June 2015 from The Guardian and the Daily Mail. The study takes a closer look at the categories used to define immigrants, including the implicit assumption of illegality associated with ‘migrants’ crossing the Mediterranean/Calais. The analysis reveals how both news articles contribute to a similar discourse, which places the refugee at a distance and presents the UK as being threatened by a rising number of, specifically male, ‘migrants’. This article deconstructs two ideologically dissimilar news articles to reveal the manner in which they can both contribute to a negative construction of refugees and immigrants arriving in Europe.

scholarly journals A Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reports on the COVID-19 Pandemic in China and the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Hangyan Yu ◽  
Huiling Lu ◽  
Jie Hu
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Ideological Differences ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
China Daily

Media, as important windows for the public to get to know timely information, play a vital role in influencing citizens’ attitudes as well as behaviors. From 2019, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, a global health emergency, has aroused great concern of the international community, including media. Varied in cultural context, political stand, and people’s ideology, however, media in different countries reported the COVID-19 dissimilarly. According to Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (CDA) model, it is posited that the discrepancies in the reports of the COVID-19 can reflect ideological differences and have explanatory power in the development of the COVID-19 in distinct countries. Based on this premise, by utilizing the database analysis software AntConc 3.2.4w on self-built corpora, this study analyzed the news reports of different stages on the COVID-19 in China and the UK, i.e., in China Daily and The Guardian, respectively, and attempted to reveal the discourse characteristics in the two media, together with the discussion on their possible relations to the pandemic-controlling practices. The corpus-based analysis showed that China Daily used more objective and neutral words in the descriptions of the COVID-19 and expressed more active attitudes in fighting against the epidemic, whereas The Guardian used more negative words in describing the pandemic and words with weak restricting force when reporting policies concerning the control and prevention of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moreover, the comparison between the discourse before and after the lockdown demonstrated that the descriptions of the COVID-19 in the UK media transformed into a more objective and neutral one than before with an increased use of expressions of restriction and social conflicts. The same comparison in the discourse of China Daily found that words about sharing experience and promoting cooperation augmented noticeably. The above-mentioned findings were also discussed together with these two countries’ domestic epidemic situations and ideological differences, respectively.

scholarly journals Exploring John Updike's Terrorist as a Neo-Orientalist Narrative of the Arabo-Islamic World

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-561
Author(s):  
Muhamad Shahbaz Arif ◽  
Maqbool Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
World Peace ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Contemporary World

The present study aims at exploring John Updike's "Terrorist", as a Neo-Orientalist account of the Muslims, especially the Arabs. In fact, there has been an age long strife between the West and Islam dating back to the Crusades. The ideology which propelled the crusaders was based on the binary of "us" versus ˜them. The Western rulers, clergy, missionaries,merchants and writers would tend to view Islam and Muslims through their myopic lens and built an exotic, strange albeit distorted image of Islam and Muslims in their accounts. These accounts influenced the representations of the Muslim and Islamic World in the scholarly discipline of Orientalism significantly.The study underpins that orientalist representations of the Muslims as barbarians, inert, unprogressive and an imminent to danger to world peace, are still very much a part of the contemporary world. This re-incarnation of orientalist thinking is termed as Neo-Orientalism in the post-colonial parlance. Many literary works published in the wake of 9/11 echoes this Neo-Orientalist thinking. Updike's famous novel ‘Terrorist’, which was published in 2006, has been chosen as a specimen text to this effect. The critical appraisal of the narrative, particularly the depiction of Muslim characters, through application of the methodology of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on the lines enunciated by Huckin, suggests that Updike has adopted a Neo-Orientalist approach by creating and fortifying the so called binary of West and Islam, and portrayed them as irreconcilable entities. Instead of bridging the gulp between the West and the Muslim World, the narrative is likely to create further chasm between the two.

Hacktivism and Alternative Journalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 347-361
Author(s):  
Christophe Emmanuel Premat
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Original Position ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
New Form ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Alternative Journalism

The article deals with the creation of a hacktivist channel in France in 2013. The channel pretends to evaluate the information and invite critical guests that are not considered in traditional media. The aim of the article is to study how this channel presents the guests and the topics to see if there is a journalistic innovation. By using the tools of critical discourse analysis and conversational analysis, it is possible to describe the way the guests are presented and connected to the topic promoted by the article. The scenography is also worth being described as the guests have long interviews with a hidden journalist without any montage. In reality, the technique is all the more interesting as it allows the guest to correct his/her reputation. The development of a prior ethos to a discursive ethos is important as the channel can take an advantage of its original position in the sphere of media. Last but not least, the focus on those techniques helps to see if this kind of critical media is a new form of alternative journalism.

scholarly journals Utopia or Uprising? Conflicting Discourses of Japanese Robotics in the British Press

2019 ◽  
pp. 135-167
Author(s):  
Christopher J. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The West ◽  
Positive Image ◽  
Advanced Nation ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
The Future ◽  
British Press ◽  
Conflicting Discourses

Technology is a particularly interesting example of where media portrayal of Japan is inconsistent. For many years, Japan has been known as a technologically advanced nation. This image persists, especially in the last couple of years with the introduction of service and retail robots such as Softbank’s Pepper. While sometimes news publications present this as a positive image of the future, an idea of what we in the West have to look forwards to, at other times, the image of technology in Japan is decidedly negative. Sometimes it has too much technology, or it has technologies that ‘we in the West’ would not see a use for. How do these conflicting views arise? This paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis to analyse British news articles about three recent robots in order to reveal the discourses present. The article will investigate whether these depictions are a result of Orientalism, but will show that no single Orientalism is responsible, but rather a combination of Techno-Orientalism, Self-Orientalism, and Wacky Orientalism.

scholarly journals Seeing the Media Education from the Lens of Critical Discourse Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-31
Author(s):  
Veronica Saragi ◽  
Annisa Septiani ◽  
Jumiati Jumiati
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Know How ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media

This paper about critical discourse analysis in media education. Students have used mass media to help them to learn. They get any information from it. Although mass media can help the students to learn, mass media also has an adverse effect. For that, the students must know how to critically mass media such as they know the theory of critical practice, critical media literacy and CDA in the education media.

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