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The Saudi Online Discourse on the Right to Drive: A Contrastive Critical Analysis

abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the issue of Saudi women’s right to drive through a critical analysis of the Saudi online discourse on women’s right to drive. In the study, the attempt was made to provide a critical contrastive analysis of the online debate for and against Saudi women’s right to drive. A review of the literature indicated that very little research has been done about critical discourse analysis (CDA) of online texts focusing on the representation and rights of Saudi women. Employing Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework, a corpus of written posts on the right to drive, written by Saudi women, was analyzed at three levels: (a) textual analysis, (b) discursive practice analysis, and (c) sociocultural practice. The findings of the analysis on the textual and discursive practice levels showed that the theme of ingroup and outgroup presentation was significant in the data. The findings also indicated that ideologies were expressed linguistically by means of naming, presuppositions, predication, and intertextuality. At the sociocultural practice level, the controversial struggle about the right to drive was situated in its broader sociocultural context, in which the complexity of the sociocultural practice of the Saudi Society was revealed. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation English 2016

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:38644
Date January 2016
ContributorsAlharbi, Badr (Author), Adams, Karen L (Advisor), Long, Elenore (Committee member), Warriner, Doris (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeDoctoral Dissertation
Format124 pages
Rightshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved

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