Politicizing COVID-19 Lingua in Western and Arab Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

COVID-19 has struck the world in an unprecedented way. Countries quickly tried to counter the rapid spread of the virus by imposing strict measures and national lockdowns. At the same time, some governments took advantage of the pandemic to besmirch their opponents. We utilize van Dijk (J Polit Ideo...

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Autores principales: Elyas, Tariq, Aljabri, Abdulrahman, Mujaddadi, Abrar, Almohammadi, Alaa, Oraif, Iman, Alrawi, Maather, AlShurfa, Nuha, Rasheed, Aseel
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9419646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36061817
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11196-022-09933-2
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author Elyas, Tariq
Aljabri, Abdulrahman
Mujaddadi, Abrar
Almohammadi, Alaa
Oraif, Iman
Alrawi, Maather
AlShurfa, Nuha
Rasheed, Aseel
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Aljabri, Abdulrahman
Mujaddadi, Abrar
Almohammadi, Alaa
Oraif, Iman
Alrawi, Maather
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description COVID-19 has struck the world in an unprecedented way. Countries quickly tried to counter the rapid spread of the virus by imposing strict measures and national lockdowns. At the same time, some governments took advantage of the pandemic to besmirch their opponents. We utilize van Dijk (J Polit Ideol 11(2):115–140 2006) critical discourse analysis model to investigate how newspaper headlines reacted to COVID-19 from through ideological lenses. Results show that while the US implied that China is the origin of the virus, headlines in Arab newspapers showed that Saudi Arabia blamed travel to Iran for the early increases of COVID-19 cases.
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spelling pubmed-94196462022-08-30 Politicizing COVID-19 Lingua in Western and Arab Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis Elyas, Tariq Aljabri, Abdulrahman Mujaddadi, Abrar Almohammadi, Alaa Oraif, Iman Alrawi, Maather AlShurfa, Nuha Rasheed, Aseel Int J Semiot Law Article COVID-19 has struck the world in an unprecedented way. Countries quickly tried to counter the rapid spread of the virus by imposing strict measures and national lockdowns. At the same time, some governments took advantage of the pandemic to besmirch their opponents. We utilize van Dijk (J Polit Ideol 11(2):115–140 2006) critical discourse analysis model to investigate how newspaper headlines reacted to COVID-19 from through ideological lenses. Results show that while the US implied that China is the origin of the virus, headlines in Arab newspapers showed that Saudi Arabia blamed travel to Iran for the early increases of COVID-19 cases. Springer Netherlands 2022-08-27 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9419646/ /pubmed/36061817 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11196-022-09933-2 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Rasheed, Aseel
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9419646/
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