News values in international news: A cross-lingual corpus-assisted discourse study of the Arab Spring’s representations in Arabic and English web-based news by Al Jazeera and the BBC

Assiri, Banan 2024. News values in international news: A cross-lingual corpus-assisted discourse study of the Arab Spring’s representations in Arabic and English web-based news by Al Jazeera and the BBC. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University. Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

In this thesis, I research comparative discursive practices in international web-based news media delivered in Arabic and English. I employ both cross-linguistic corpus linguistics (Vessey 2013; Taylor 2014) and discursive news values approach (Bednarek and Caple 2017) to investigate how reporting of the same events by the same news outlet in two languages may index different news values and may result in different or even contradictory representations of particular political and social actions and participants. This is of interest because it adds empirical support to the notion of ‘representation’ in the reporting of events (Hall 1980) and problematizes the notion that an individual news source has a coherent news story or stance. Using the News Values approach (Bednarek and Caple 2017), political and social actions and participants in the "Arab Spring" are examined in articles in Arabic and English from two international news outlets, Al-Jazeera and the BBC. An original contribution of this thesis is the development of a more culturally-sensitive series of New Values. This evaluation-analysis of the cross-linguistic/cultural corpora also reveals a downscaling of news audience cultures in Al-Jazeera (delivered in Arabic) and Aljazeera English compared to the one-sided discursive practice of BBC News (delivered in English) and BBC Arabic. Both Aljazeera and the BBC offer evidence of how discourse features change to represent political and social participants in the “Arab Spring” from differing cross-linguistic/cultural perspectives.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD)
Date Type:	Completion
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PE English
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	26 February 2025
Last Modified:	26 Feb 2025 16:51
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/176501

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