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2024-03-28T12:36:18ZA Critical Discourse Analysis of the Representation of the Syrian Refugees in The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Representation of the Syrian Refugees in The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian
KASMI, Djelloul
This study aims to examine the representation of Syrian refugees in The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian in the context of the 2015 European migrant crisis. The study employed critical discourse analysis (CDA) to investigate how these refugees were portrayed in both newspapers. To achieve this goal, a sample of eight news articles and editorials published between August 1st, 2015, and December 31st, 2015, was chosen for analysis, taking into consideration the ideological stance of each newspaper (conservative/liberal). The sample covers a period of time when media coverage of the refugee crisis reached its peak. The analysis employed Van Leewun’s (2008) socio-semantic framework and Wodak’s (2009) discourse-historical approach. The two scholars proposed useful categories for analyzing the representation of ‘social actors’ such as: ‘exclusion', ‘inclusion’, ‘individualization’, and ‘collectivization’. Results revealed that both newspapers implemented inclusion and exclusion strategies in their coverage, with individualized and collectivized representations. The study concluded that The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian framed Syrian refugees differently: the former depicted them as outsiders and faceless masses, while the latter portrayed them as helpless, vulnerable refugees.
2023-06-19T00:00:00ZA Critical Discourse Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899): Hallidayan Functional Grammar Model
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899): Hallidayan Functional Grammar Model
GHIBECHE, Abdallah
The establishment of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899) in the canon of English literature called the attention of many literary critics who did their best to enrich the reader's understanding of the work from different perspectives. Consequently, the accumulated material on this novella is so extensive that it reflects different standpoints. The most evident stance, which stems from the nature of the story concerning Africa and its indigenous people, is established on racial and ethnic issues. Chinua Achebe’s 1977 unique critical essay An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness redefined the whole debate over the work with respect to these very issues. The present dissertation tries to answer Achebe’s allegations that were made in the aforementioned essay. We argue that approaching the novella from a linguistic perspective should reveal more about the sensitive questions raised by Achebe. Thus, we opt for a critical discourse analysis of seven chosen excerpts. This analysis is based on Hallidayan Systemic Functional Grammar. It categorises the transitivity patterns found in the excerpts. Then, it critically discusses the findings. The latter, can be summarised as follows; as regards imperialism, the work can be considered as an anti-imperialist one. Concerning the language used to describe the scenes and the natives, it manifests a kind of bias that it could not be without due to the cultural gap that was widened by the coloniser. Marlow’s vivid account of his journey reflects the cultural shock he experienced in the African jungles.
2022-09-15T00:00:00ZLexical innovation as a social marker : The case of youngsters in Oran
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Lexical innovation as a social marker : The case of youngsters in Oran
SARNOU, Hanane
Language is the one human phenomenon that is affected
by anything and everything around human beings. Because
language is tremendously changing with each and every alteration
Man witnesses, it is 'mysterious' enough to provoke the linguist's
quests to know how and why language changes in line with the
changes that occur in and on our life.
In view of that, the field of linguistics has given birth to a
great number of sub-branches, and each of these branches
represents a query of one of the language varieties, aspects,
functions…etc. As for the language varieties, there are a lot of
linguistic branches that investigate why do languages have
different varieties (dialects, spoken varieties, lects,
vernaculars…).
One of the language varieties that may seem complicated
is the 'lect'. The latter is a linguistic term that refers to any variety
of a given language or dialect which is related to a given feature,
be it sex (sexlect), age (agelect), social class (sociolect),
individual (idiolect). The Agelect is the variety related to the
feature of age. It marks the distinction between different
generations in terms of age, and no one ignores that age
differences result in other differences: at the level of behaviour, of
mentality, and speech.
In a given speech community, one may find clearly
distinct age lects, and this is due to a set of salient factors. The
question to be raised, then, is whether this distinction will give
birth to a gap between different generations or to an interesting
medley of spoken varieties.
2008-12-31T00:00:00ZThe American middle class family moral valus in Turmoil 1950-1980
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The American middle class family moral valus in Turmoil 1950-1980
KHINECHE, Soumèya
Historically as well as sociologically speaking, people in general and societies in particular, have
always diverged from their very existence. They kept living with a series of socio-ideological
disagreements perpetuating the spirit of individual antagonism and inter-generational conflicts spreading
overwhelmingly within a multi-racial as well as cultural society.
America of the fifties, or some may call it Post-War America was one of the most important
periods. It was on the eve of a salient transitory phase, moving thus, from an era of upheavals including:
isolation, World War One, Great Depression, World War Two and the Cold War, to an era known as
being the embodiment of the American Dream.
American middle class citizens then, embraced both full material prosperity and spiritual oneness.
As a nascent nation, it brilliantly came to impose_ via its tremendous economic growth, rising social
contentment and technological advance_ its military strength, industrial might as well as, religious
entrenchment. Being an Extremely _ethnical and generational_ diverse country, a controversial
phenomenon spurt to foster the generational gap in general and family values conflicts in particular.
Families for instance were already drawn by the extended absence of fathers, who served in World War
Two as well as technological advance. That phenomenon, that turned moral values upside down, helped
erode the social and cultural stigma attached to the aged, involving: good manners, moral values, virtues
and all the ideals which the Founding Fathers had almost perfectly shaped, for the sake of the coming
American generations. In short, moral erosion left the door open to a current of permissiveness and
immoral tolerance during the sixties, heavily enhanced by a so-called sense of modernity. That
phenomenon was vehicled by an extravagant young population who adhered to principles in total
contradiction with those of their parents. It was an unstable, unbalanced and ultra-tolerant society.
However, the firm support to social values along with Christian morals of a conservative
movement nominated the Religious Right, proved nevertheless during the seventies to fifty percent control
the situation. They came out with a new religious, social and political agenda to get rid of the seeds of
permissiveness that were a real threat to the basic traditional Christian moral values. The Religious Right
engaged in local battles to restore: school- prayers, text-books, contents concerning evolution. And led a
moral fight against: taxation of private Christian schools, pornography, feminist and gay movements,
abortion, etc.
Actually, to save a contemporary American middle class family _that seemed lacking the
elementary precept well-structured into one major concept know as the social and family ethical code_ a
spirit of duty should be commonly shared by the members of the American society in general and family
in particular, as an ethos that realizes true conventional welfare and moral goodness.
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