Representations of Syrian issue in the foreign Arabic-speaking news discourse

Kamal Mahrez Ghaly, Muhammad; Salah El-Din Hassan, Khalid

doi:10.21608/jkom.2023.325753

Representations of Syrian issue in the foreign Arabic-speaking news discourse

Authors

¹ Faculty of Arts, Helwan University, Egypt

² Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University, Egypt

10.21608/jkom.2023.325753

Abstract

The study aims to fragment the language of foreign Arabic-speaking news discourse, deconstruct the statements of the Syrian issue, analyze the linguistic style, extrapolate the relationships between phrase structures, and the dimensions of news texts to reveal lexical connotations.
The study relied on the qualitative analysis approach of the narratives of Al-hurra, Deutsche Welle, and Russia-Today speech.
The results concluded that the news discourse came with an ideological load that promotes vocabulary and terms that carry political, social, and psychological dimensions, which were reflected in the state's foreign policy practices, especially when managing issues. And the media discourses pave the way for societies to pass the plans of countries by creating a cognitive sphere that is saturated with the ideology of directed statements.

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