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Title:
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Ideology and Control in Some Speech and Newspaper Genres: A politicolinguistics approach to discourse analysis
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Author:
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Bahaa-Eddin Mazid
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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Ain Shams University
, Department of English
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Degree Date:
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1999
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Discourse Analysis
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Subject Language(s):
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Arabic, Sa`idi Spoken
English
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Director(s):
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Ganette Atiyya
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Abstract:
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The study explores ideology and control in some speech and newspaper genres in English and Arabic. The data of the study consists of: the American Declaration of Independence, Sadat's speech to the Israeli Knesset, two advice columns - one from Cosmopolitan and the other from the Egptian daily Al-Ahram - and six headlines from five newspapers - three Egyptian and two Anglo-American. The methodology used is based on critical disourse analysis (CDA) and political dicourse analysis (PDA) - two frameworks that are essenially based on Halliday's functional paradigm and the more general (Marxist) concern with ideology and ideological state apparatuses. The textual aspects examined are: transitivity, modality, metadiscourse and presupposition. The findings of the study include significant cross-genre (political speech vs. headline vs. advice columnb), cross-language (English vs Modern Standard Arabic)variations, as well as variations relating to and resulting from the different contexts of the data - Sadat's visit to Israel eventually leading to the Camp David Peace Accords, the US separation from British rule, the Princess Diana accident and western 'aid' to Africa. In any case, discourse reproduces/encodes and is constituted by ideology and control/power relationships.
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