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Social Media Cartooning
The current study aims to investigate the visual and multimodal metaphors by the use of metaphorical elements in cartoons that focus on social media networking. Thirty-two cartoons, drawn by well-known cartoonists, are gathered from the Iraqi newspapers. They were selected and classified based on their themes. All the details of these cartoons are taken into consideration. They are analyzed and interpreted using the metaphorical concepts based on Lakoff and Johnson's (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory. Then, they are analyzed by using Forceville's (1996) pictorial metaphor and Sobrino's (2017) Multimodal Metaphor Approach. The findings reveal that the cartoons showed different visual/ pictorial and multimodal metaphors. They addressed different themes in satirical manner. In conclusion, the verbal text played a crucial role to make the multimodal metaphors dominant in the gathered cartoons that are relevant to social media.
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Stance and Engagement Markers in English and Arabic Newspaper Opinion Articles in 2016
The present study investigates the use of stance and engagement markers in English and Arabic newspaper opinion articles. This study is based on the assumption that written texts of any kind represent some kind of interaction between writers and their potential readers. Interaction between the text producers and text receivers is achieved by the employment of stance and engagement markers. These markers are considered as a main factor in constructing successful arguments for these persuasive texts (newspaper opinion articles). They are the main tools in conveying the writers' attitudes about what is being written and guiding the readers throughout the texts. The main objectives of this study are to identify stance and engagement markers in both English and Arabic opinion articles and to contrast their use bothqualitatively and quantitatively. To this effect, a total of twenty opinion articles (ten English and ten Arabic) are analyzed adopting the analytical model of Hyland. The results demonstrate that writers of both English and Arab opinion article semploy stance and engagement markers in their persuasive writing. Quantitatively speaking, the results show that the total tokens of these markers in the English datum are (210) and (211) in the Arabic datum. This indicates that these resources are used equally across the two sets of corpora. However, frequency variation is noticed in the employment of the sub-categories of stance and engagement markers across them.\"
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Investigating Recurrent Themes and Semantic Fields in News Reports on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam a Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), under construction since 2011, is a source of political tension between Ethiopia and Egypt. This study investigates the major recurrent themes and semantic fields occurring in the Egyptian and Ethiopian news media representation of the issues raised by the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The objective of the study is to compare and contrast the ideological implications reflected in the Egyptian and Ethiopian news discourse on the controversy surrounding the GERD. The analysis uses the tools of Corpus Linguistics (CL) within the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), adopting Fairclough's (1995) three-dimensional model of CDA. The method of analysis relies on conducting two corpus linguistic procedures, namely, keywords and concordances. The data under investigation consist of two specialized corpora of online news reports written in English and published in the period between 2013 to 2020. The findings of the corpus analysis reveal the impact of ideological and political stance on the representation and interpretation of the issues concerning the GERD in the news media.
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Clusivity Marking and Cognitive Frame Construction in the \War on Terror\ Discourse in Selected Arabic and English Online Newspaper Articles
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.
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