Modern media Arabic : a study of word frequency in world affairs and sports sections in Arabic newspapers
This study examines language style of Arabic newspapers particularly in the world affairs and sport sections, using the word frequency analysis. The study is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter mainly focuses on background and aims of the study, while review of previous studies is presented in the second chapter. Chapter Three discusses Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the selected newspapers and the chosen sections. Chapter Four concerns on the methodology applied in the study. Analysis of the language style is presented in Chapter five and followed by findings which are discussed in Chapter Six. The final chapter provides summary, conclusion and suggestions for further research. The study employed a self-constructed method in corpus building. A total of 30 articles (world affairs and sports) from seven Arabic newspapers were collected from the official online websites mostly in November 2007. Five of the newspapers are published in Arab countries and one in both the United Kingdom and Australia. The Wordsmith version 5.0 was used in analyzing the corpus data. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyse word frequency list in both categories, while the Likelihood ratio test
Abdul Razak, Zainur Rijal
BL Religion ; P Philology. Linguistics ; PJ Semitic
Modern media Arabic : a study of word frequency in world affairs and sports sections in Arabic newspapers. This study examines language style of Arabic newspapers particularly in the world affairs and sport sections, using the word frequency analysis. The study is divided into seven chapters. The first chapter mainly focuses on background and aims of the study, while review of previous studies is presented in the second chapter. Chapter Three discusses Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the selected newspapers and the chosen sections. Chapter Four concerns on the methodology applied in the study. Analysis of the language style is presented in Chapter five and followed by findings which are discussed in Chapter Six. The final chapter provides summary, conclusion and suggestions for further research. The study employed a self-constructed method in corpus building. A total of 30 articles (world affairs and sports) from seven Arabic newspapers were collected from the official online websites mostly in November 2007. Five of the newspapers are published in Arab countries and one in both the United Kingdom and Australia. The Wordsmith version 5.0 was used in analyzing the corpus data. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyse word frequency list in both categories, while the Likelihood ratio test
modern medium arabic study word_frequency world affair sport section arabic newspaper study_examines language style arabic newspaper particularly world affair sport section use word_frequency analysis study_divide chapter first mainly_focus background aim_study review_previous study present second chapter three_discus modern_standard arabic_msa select newspaper choose section concern apply study analysis language style present followed finding discuss final provide summary conclusion suggestion research study employ self constructed method corpus building total article world affair sport arabic newspaper collect official online mostly newspaper publish arab country united_kingdom australia wordsmith version use analyze corpus_data descriptive inferential statistic employ analyse word_frequency list category likelihood ratio test