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This is a theoretical overview of two of the most recent issues in cognitive linguistics. The first is an old term with new understanding; a new broadened concept which had been studied traditionally, but it has been given new horizons in cognitive linguistics and its applications on critical discourse analysis. This concept is clusivity. The second concept is cognitive frame construction. It is concerned with cognitive processes reproduced in the minds of text-consumers as a result of specific linguistic structures. Cognitive frame construction, as a linguistic tool, utilizes Tamly's (1988, 200) theory of force dynamics in order to figure out how specific linguistic structures are used to frame an event, phenomena or even any object. Both of these two concepts are the offspring of the recent developments in the relationship between language and cognition. While Functional Linguistics is considered \"speaker oriented\" and \"process-focused\", Cognitive Linguistics is \"hearer-oriented\" and \"pattern-focused\". Cognitive Linguistics is concerned with interpretation-stage analysis, rather than the previously widely used and appreciated description-stage, in CDA. The reader/ text-consumer was not theorized. In cognitive linguistics, the reader/ text-consumer will be. The ideological mental representations, the reader/ text-consumer develops in response to specific structures in text, will be investigated.

This study applies the cognitive approach to critical discourse analysis to selected Arabic and English online newspaper articles covering terrorism. Its first aim is to investigate the concept of clusivity and how it is manifested in the \"War on Terror\" discourse. This will be done through comparing the pragma-cognitive strategies of proximization, and ideological square and their role in marking clusivity. The second aim is to figure out how the \"Us\" and \"Them\" relationship is linguistically portrayed and framed in \"war on terror\" discourse and how linguistic expressions contribute to the investigation of the cognitive frame construction and framing process used in online news discourse. It adopts Force Dynamics Model (Talmy, 1988, 2000) to illustrate the cognitive frame and its framing process that news discourse constructs. The data of the study consists of selected online Arabic and English news articles taken from Al-Ahram and Al-Masry Al-Youm, The Washington Post and The Guardian official online platforms. Results showed that the ''war on terror'' discourse is a globalized, to use Cap's (2017) words, language of fear.