Ideological positioning through linguistic choices: critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya’s online news framing the 2017 Gulf crisis
The present study aims to conduct a critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya online news coverage of the 2017 Gulf crisis, focusing on the linguistic strategies sued by news reporters to convey ideological positioning. The study utilizes Jeffries’s critical stylistic framework (2010) and corpus met...
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| author | Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan Jasim, Samir A. Jalaluddin, Ilyana Abdul Halim, Hazlina |
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| description | The present study aims to conduct a critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya online news coverage of the 2017 Gulf crisis, focusing on the linguistic strategies sued by news reporters to convey ideological positioning. The study utilizes Jeffries’s critical stylistic framework (2010) and corpus methods to analyze a corpus compiled from Al Arabiya English covering the first month of the crisis. The research combines qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the ideological implications in the targeted media narrative, highlighting the use of naming and describing and equating and contrasting strategies. The analysis reveals that Al Arabiya has employed linguistic choices such as charged nouns, lexical ambiguity, complex noun phrases, and nominalization to reinforce Suadi Arabiya’s position, undermine Qatar’s credibility, and construct a negative narrative about Qatar. The study also identifies the use of equating and contrasting strategies to stigmatize Qatar, exaggerate threats, and support the anti-Qatar stance in the dispute. The findings demonstrate how Al Arabiya strategically uses language recourses and particular linguistics choices to shape readers’ perceptions and align them with the Saudi Arabiya’s geopolitical objectives in the Gulf crisis. |
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| spelling | upm-1198472025-09-11T03:39:13Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/119847/ Ideological positioning through linguistic choices: critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya’s online news framing the 2017 Gulf crisis Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan Jasim, Samir A. Jalaluddin, Ilyana Abdul Halim, Hazlina The present study aims to conduct a critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya online news coverage of the 2017 Gulf crisis, focusing on the linguistic strategies sued by news reporters to convey ideological positioning. The study utilizes Jeffries’s critical stylistic framework (2010) and corpus methods to analyze a corpus compiled from Al Arabiya English covering the first month of the crisis. The research combines qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the ideological implications in the targeted media narrative, highlighting the use of naming and describing and equating and contrasting strategies. The analysis reveals that Al Arabiya has employed linguistic choices such as charged nouns, lexical ambiguity, complex noun phrases, and nominalization to reinforce Suadi Arabiya’s position, undermine Qatar’s credibility, and construct a negative narrative about Qatar. The study also identifies the use of equating and contrasting strategies to stigmatize Qatar, exaggerate threats, and support the anti-Qatar stance in the dispute. The findings demonstrate how Al Arabiya strategically uses language recourses and particular linguistics choices to shape readers’ perceptions and align them with the Saudi Arabiya’s geopolitical objectives in the Gulf crisis. Transnational Press London 2024 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/119847/1/119847.pdf Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan and Jasim, Samir A. and Jalaluddin, Ilyana and Abdul Halim, Hazlina (2024) Ideological positioning through linguistic choices: critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya’s online news framing the 2017 Gulf crisis. Kurdish Studies, 12 (2). pp. 5008-5024. ISSN 2051-4883; eISSN: 2051-4891 https://kurdishstudies.net/article-detail/?id=2633 10.58262/ks.v12i2.371 |
| spellingShingle | Abdul Jabar, Mohd Azidan Jasim, Samir A. Jalaluddin, Ilyana Abdul Halim, Hazlina Ideological positioning through linguistic choices: critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya’s online news framing the 2017 Gulf crisis |
| title | Ideological positioning through linguistic choices: critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya’s online news framing the 2017 Gulf crisis |
| title_full | Ideological positioning through linguistic choices: critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya’s online news framing the 2017 Gulf crisis |
| title_fullStr | Ideological positioning through linguistic choices: critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya’s online news framing the 2017 Gulf crisis |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ideological positioning through linguistic choices: critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya’s online news framing the 2017 Gulf crisis |
| title_short | Ideological positioning through linguistic choices: critical stylistic analysis of Al Arabiya’s online news framing the 2017 Gulf crisis |
| title_sort | ideological positioning through linguistic choices: critical stylistic analysis of al arabiya’s online news framing the 2017 gulf crisis |
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