The representation of the Arab Spring narrative in English and Arabic news media
Since its emergence in late December 2010, the Arab Spring narrative has sparked many controversies among researchers, commentators, analysts, and scholars from different disciplines around the world in terms of the causes and the reasons behind it and even its name: âArab Springâ. This study explores the Arab Spring narrative from its emergence to its continuing dĂ©nouement in the English and Arabic mainstream news media from corpus-linguistic and critical discourse analytic perspectives. The Arab Spring bilingual corpus consists of two main sub-corpora, English and Arabic, compiled from LexisNexis and other news websites. Totalling 15,088 articles and 11,522,846 words, the English sub-corpus consists of 7,018 texts with total of 5,901,416 words, while the Arabic sub-corpus comprises 8,070 news texts and a total of 5,621,430 words. Taken from prominent news media outlets from Western, Arab and Islamic countries, and divided into two major text types (news and editorials and opinions) with date range coverage from 15 June 2010 until 31 August 2013, it allows us to diachronically and synchronically examine the discursive construction of the Arab Spring narrative. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods
Alian, Najat Hashem Mohammad
The representation of the Arab Spring narrative in English and Arabic news media. Since its emergence in late December 2010, the Arab Spring narrative has sparked many controversies among researchers, commentators, analysts, and scholars from different disciplines around the world in terms of the causes and the reasons behind it and even its name: âArab Springâ. This study explores the Arab Spring narrative from its emergence to its continuing dĂ©nouement in the English and Arabic mainstream news media from corpus-linguistic and critical discourse analytic perspectives. The Arab Spring bilingual corpus consists of two main sub-corpora, English and Arabic, compiled from LexisNexis and other news websites. Totalling 15,088 articles and 11,522,846 words, the English sub-corpus consists of 7,018 texts with total of 5,901,416 words, while the Arabic sub-corpus comprises 8,070 news texts and a total of 5,621,430 words. Taken from prominent news media outlets from Western, Arab and Islamic countries, and divided into two major text types (news and editorials and opinions) with date range coverage from 15 June 2010 until 31 August 2013, it allows us to diachronically and synchronically examine the discursive construction of the Arab Spring narrative. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods
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