Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis of CNN's Representation of the Yemen War

Issue Date

2020

Abstract

This study examines the representation of the Yemen war by CNN using corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis (CDA). It is a based upon a corpus comprised of news reports published by the said media outlet between March 2015 and November 2018. Assisted by AntConc, a freeware designed to discover and examine patterns in language use in large collections of electronic texts, a combination of lexical frequency, collocation, and concordance analysis were conducted. It was found that CNN portrayed the Yemen war as a sectarian proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran since its commencement. This study argues that such kind of media representation simplified and obscured the war's complex character which is rooted in the internal struggle for power and resources among competing domestic forces.

Source or Periodical Title

Journal of Environmental Science and Management

ISSN

0117 1461

Volume

XVIII

Issue

1

Page

94-109

Document Type

Article

Frequency

annually

Physical Description

tables

Language

English

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