133. Name: Ashraf Z.R. Tantish Title: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the News Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in AJE and CNN News Websites Institution: University of Malaya Country: Malaysia Date: 2012 Language: English Abstract: This study explores intertextuality and its function in reproducing the underlying ideology and power relations in news articles on Palestinian- Israeli conflict in the AJE and CNN news websites. The study adopted Fairclough’s approach to CDA to examine the use and functions of intertextuality in six news articles from AJE and CNN. The study focuses specifically in the inclusion and exclusion of the “voices” in the news articles by using direct and indirect reporting of speech. The analysis reveals how producers of news articles in the news websites construct and incorporate the various voices for ideological purposes. The study demonstrates that the way writers incorporated the voices in news articles using direct and indirect reported speech is found to be loaded with ideological bias. The relationship between the way writers report the voices of others and their own objectives confirms the relationship between language, ideology and power in the articles of AJE and CNN. The study suggests that the issue of intertextuality in news articles on to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on AJE and CNN websites needs to be examined in a broader political context.
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