Emotiveness, neutrality, and ideology in newspaper coverage of the 2009 Gaza War

مقدم أطروحة جامعية

Abu Mualish, Rabab Taha Muhammad

مشرف أطروحة جامعية

Shakir, Abd Allah

أعضاء اللجنة

Nawfal, Khalil
al-Haj, Sulayman
al-Rifai, Kazim

الجامعة

جامعة فيلادلفيا

الكلية

كلية الآداب و الفنون

القسم الأكاديمي

قسم اللغة الإنجليزية و آدابها

دولة الجامعة

الأردن

الدرجة العلمية

ماجستير

تاريخ الدرجة العلمية

2011

الملخص الإنجليزي

-This study was conducted for the purpose of showing the role of ideological stance in determining the writer's/speaker's lexical and semantic choices in interpreting the event of shelling Gaza by the Israeli forces.

For this purpose a number of Arabic newspapers which dealt with the event were selected and analyzed in terms of emotiveness, neutrality and ideological thought patterns.

The analysis was based mainly on Halliday's (1983) theory of transitivity and Leech's (1985) views of the role of thematisation in reflecting the speaker's/ writer's perspectives of the world of discourse.

The analysis showed two different perspectives and therefore, different interpretations of the event.

The Arabic texts adopted, on the whole, a stance expressive of historical and religious background.

They take sides with the Gazans and consider them victims of an aggressive war, brutal and unjustified.

This appears at both the semantic and syntactic choices that show in the texts.

The English texts, on the other hand, take sides, with the Israelis and place all the blame on the Palestinians who threaten the Israeli citizens with their rockets.

They consider the Israeli invasion against Gaza a justified response and an acceptable reaction.

This also shows in the semantic and syntactic choices which serve the purposes of the writers.

التخصصات الرئيسية

اللغات والآداب المقارنة

الموضوعات

• النحو
• اللغة الإنجليزية

عدد الصفحات

91

قائمة المحتويات

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

نوع البيانات

رسائل جامعية

رقم السجل

BIM-546318