Abstract
The current study investigates the Arab spring upheaval consequences Egypt witnessed after 2011 popular revolution as reflected by AJE (Al-Jazeera English) in its online news article. The primary concern is to unveil AJE's hidden ideological view towards the internal conflict in Egypt investigating its discoursal positive ''Self'' and negative ''Other'' representations. Within the linguistic analysis, macro and micro structures of AJE's online news article were analyzed. At the macro level, the semantic macrostructure of AJE's article was outlined to determine its global meaning. At the micro level, the syntactic, lexical and rhetorical structures of AJE's online news article were examined to determine its local meaning. Within the ideological analysis, the AJE's online news article was analyzed to determine its ideological positive ''Self'' (in-group) and negative ''Other'' (out-group) presentations. The study is an attempt to explain how a single reality-Egyptian internal conflict- is viewed and represented by the designated media outlet, AJE. This can be achieved within the framework of critical discourse analysis (CDA). To conduct this qualitative study, the researchers adopted van Dijk's theory of Macrostructures (1980), van Dijk's theory of ideological square (1998) and Wodak's approach of Discourse- historical (2001, 2009). Furthermore, Fairclough's model for media discourse analysis was utilized to organize the analytical process. The study approved that AJE succeeded to reflect its ideological view. It expressed its support to the Muslim Brotherhood (Islamists) presented as the positive Self (in-group) and antagonism against the new Egyptian authority presented as the negative Other (out-group).
Highlights
Media news representation cannot be regarded as a direct and easy reproduction of events as it involves a process of selecting, structuring and formulating such events via language (Fairclough, 1995b)
It expressed its support to the Muslim Brotherhood (Islamists) presented as the positive "Self" and antagonism against the new Egyptian authority presented as the negative "Other"
The proposed model of critical discourse analysis (CDA) adopted in this study is based on: 1. Van Dijk's Semantic Macrostructures Theory (1980a, 1980b; 1988) which shows the linguistic analysis of the news text on both levels: macro and micro
Summary
Media news representation cannot be regarded as a direct and easy reproduction of events as it involves a process of selecting, structuring and formulating such events via language (Fairclough, 1995b). The main tool to persuade people to accept certain representations of news events which must be organized logically and naturally for the sake of spreading the views of dominant people and accepting them as common –sense knowledge providers (Fairclough, 1995b). CDA can be used as an effective method to uncover implicit ideologies and power utilized through language by those in power to control opinion for their advantage (Widdowson, 2007) Up to this point, the researcher concludes that such ideologies can be studied to understand the function of AJE's discourse linguistically and ideologically. By analyzing its online news article, the IJALEL 5(4):142-153, 2016 researchers attempts to explore AJE's hidden ideologies, examining its intended strategies to manipulate people's minds. AJE online news text will be analyzed by looking at the micro and macro structures showing how its language is manipulated for the purpose of persuading and controlling people's minds
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