abstract: This study offers a critical discourse analysis of four Saudi newspapers, examining their coverage of two particular incidents relating to the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice. Following van Dijk’s framework, the study examines the ideological role of language within media discourse. The tools of analysis include headlines, leads, lexical choices, reported speech, unnamed sources, and silenced texts. The findings of the study show that there are differences between the four newspapers in the coverage of the two incidents. The analysis also reveals different ideological attitudes among writers. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation English 2016
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:38554 |
| Date | January 2016 |
| Contributors | Alshalawi, Hamad A. (Author), Adams, Karen L (Advisor), Long, Elenore (Committee member), Prior, Mathew (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Dissertation |
| Format | 131 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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