266. Name: Abdallah Warshagha Title: Representation of Voices and Social Actors in Al Jazeera and CNN News Coverage of the 2014 Israeli-Gaza Conflict Institution: University of Malaya Country: Malaysia Date: 2019 Language: English Abstract: This comparative study tries to find out how Al Jazeera and CNN news networks represented the Israelis and the Palestinians in their news coverage during the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza. It explores and analyzes the methods of intertextuality in representing the underlying relations of power and ideology in the news articles posted on both the Al Jazeera and CNN’s websites. The study looks at the ways in which the voices of ordinary people and social actors are represented in the news coverage through employing certain strategies and linguistic representations to meet certain ideological and power stanzas. The research findings showed that the most common forms of intertextuality used by the CNN and AJE’s news writers are indirect/direct reported speeches and/or inclusive/exclusive voices. Such forms can allow the news writers to represent the voices and the social actors with using certain linguistic representations such as direct/indirect reported speeches and activated/passivated voice. The study also shows how the devices of intertextuality can play a dynamic role in representing the news discourse with certain linguistic representations that suit specific ideas and ideological objectives and agendas.
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