Open AccessA Transitivity Analysis of the Arab Revolutions Representation in Western Newspapers: the Washington Post, the Guardian and le Figaro as Case Study.
Author(s) -
Aymane Edouihri,
Yahya yachouti
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of language and literary studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2704-7156
pISSN - 2704-5528
DOI - 10.36892/ijlls.v2i3.344
Subject(s) - newspaper , transitive relation , representation (politics) , guardian , colonialism , discourse analysis , systemic functional linguistics , media studies , critical discourse analysis , sociology , gender studies , political science , history , linguistics , law , politics , philosophy , mathematics , combinatorics , ideology
The earthshaking event of the Arab revolutions profoundly impacted international relations and sparked heated discussions and analysis of East and West encounters´ legacy. Such sizable opportunity is creates an interesting momentum in revisiting western representation of the orient. Such representation traditionally feeds on colonial discourse´s binarisms, polarization and othering. Thus, this paper aims at examining western press discourse on the Arab Spring through transitivity analysis. The analysis examines the Washington Post, the Guradian and le Figaro´s articles written about the Arab revolutions. Enlightened by Systemic Functional Linguistics, transitivity analysis unveils the embedded constructs in the process types, goals and actors deployed by the newspapers´ articles writers.