188. Name: Muhammad Marwan Bin Ismail Title: Al Jazeera Arabic and BBC Arabic Online News Coverage of the 2011 Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt: Critical Discourse Analysis Institution: University of Birmingham Country: United Kingdom Date: 2019 Language: English Abstract: This study examines the Arabic online news discourse of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt. Using the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, the study analyses the modern standard Arabic used in the online news discourse of two prominent international media outlets, Al Jazeera and BBC channels. It looks at the way in which the two outlets represented the popular uprisings and the social actors of the revolutions textually and discursively during the first 70 days of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt. Corpus techniques were applied to further enhance the qualitative analysis with quantitative evidences. The study analyzes six textual and discursive practice features including the concordance analysis, content analysis, lexicalization and predication, presupposition, verbal process and intertextuality. The research findings showed a number of differences between Al Jazeera and BBC’s coverage on both the textual and discursive levels. The two outlets practiced group polarization characteristics; the in-group in BBC’s reporting was the Tunisian and Egyptian governments and the out-group was the protesters. In contrast, the in-group in Al Jazeera’s reporting was the protesters and the out-group was the two governments.
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