Representations of the ‘Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ in selected Arab and Israeli online news articles
‘The Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ was a major issue in the media coverage in the Middle East for almost five years. This issue refers to an agreement between Israel and Hamas, the dominant political party governing the Gaza Strip, to release the captivated Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in excha...
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| author | Alhossary, Abeer Barakat Abdullah, Mohd Faiz Sathivellu |
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| description | ‘The Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ was a major issue in the media coverage in the Middle East for almost five years. This issue refers to an agreement between Israel and Hamas, the dominant political party governing the Gaza Strip, to release the captivated Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons. Both the Arab and Israeli media played a role in portraying the image of the released Palestinian Prisoners versus the Israeli soldier to the readers worldwide. The study aimed to identify the online media coverage of the Swap by Aljazeera English and Ha’aretz in terms of the manipulation of language to identify the discursive strategies and the linguistic means of self-justification of both news agencies towards this issue .The results of the critical discourse analysis using the Halliday’s Transivity Theory revealed that both news agencies employed material process, verbal processes and relational processes differently to highlight certain characters and actions of the Swap from their viewpoint. |
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| spelling | upm-352322015-12-31T03:07:46Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35232/ Representations of the ‘Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ in selected Arab and Israeli online news articles Alhossary, Abeer Barakat Abdullah, Mohd Faiz Sathivellu ‘The Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ was a major issue in the media coverage in the Middle East for almost five years. This issue refers to an agreement between Israel and Hamas, the dominant political party governing the Gaza Strip, to release the captivated Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons. Both the Arab and Israeli media played a role in portraying the image of the released Palestinian Prisoners versus the Israeli soldier to the readers worldwide. The study aimed to identify the online media coverage of the Swap by Aljazeera English and Ha’aretz in terms of the manipulation of language to identify the discursive strategies and the linguistic means of self-justification of both news agencies towards this issue .The results of the critical discourse analysis using the Halliday’s Transivity Theory revealed that both news agencies employed material process, verbal processes and relational processes differently to highlight certain characters and actions of the Swap from their viewpoint. Australian International Academic Centre 2014-03 Article PeerReviewed Alhossary, Abeer Barakat and Abdullah, Mohd Faiz Sathivellu (2014) Representations of the ‘Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ in selected Arab and Israeli online news articles. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature, 3 (2). pp. 178-186. ISSN 2200-3592; ESSN: 2200-3452 http://www.journals.aiac.org.au/index.php/IJALEL/article/view/1099 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.3n.2p.178 |
| spellingShingle | Alhossary, Abeer Barakat Abdullah, Mohd Faiz Sathivellu Representations of the ‘Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ in selected Arab and Israeli online news articles |
| title | Representations of the ‘Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ in selected Arab and Israeli online news articles |
| title_full | Representations of the ‘Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ in selected Arab and Israeli online news articles |
| title_fullStr | Representations of the ‘Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ in selected Arab and Israeli online news articles |
| title_full_unstemmed | Representations of the ‘Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ in selected Arab and Israeli online news articles |
| title_short | Representations of the ‘Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap’ in selected Arab and Israeli online news articles |
| title_sort | representations of the ‘palestinian prisoners-shalit swap’ in selected arab and israeli online news articles |
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