Abeer Zeiad Barakat Alhossary

Representations of 'The Palestinian Prisoners-Shalit Swap'

In Selected Arab and Israeli Online News Articles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'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, who were mostly sentenced to life. 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 attempted 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9783659772214
• ISBN-10: 3659772216
• Artikelnr.: 44736691

Autorenporträt

Mrs. Abeer Z. Barakat Alhossary obtained her BA English Education and her MA Applied Linguistics. She has been teaching English as Second language and English for Specific Purposes in a number of Tertiary institutions in Gaza, Palestine. Her research interest is in the fields of CDA, Media language, ESL, ESP and Mobile Learning.