Abstract
The Tunisian Revolution has generated unprecedented attention in Arab and Western news. In many cases, these media intended not only to report on the events but to dominate people’s ideologies in order to favor a political outcome (Galal and Spielhaus 2012). The present study examines the development of the Tunisian Revolution through the lenses of Arab written media –Arabic and English reports – and Western written media in English. The objective of this longitudinal investigation is to elucidate, through a combination of Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis, the ideological representations of the media coverage in the post-revolution era.
About the authors
Jesús Romero-Trillo (Ph.D. Complutense; M.Sc. Edinburgh) is a tenured Associate Professor (with accreditation as a Full Professor) at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. With an interest in Corpus Linguistics, his research ranges from the pragmatics-intonation interface to the analysis of political discourse. He has edited several volumes and has numerous publications in prestigious journals such as Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, Pragmatics and Society, Pragmatics and Cognition, etc. Romero-Trillo is also the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Corpus Pragmatics and of the Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics. www.jesusromerotrillo.es
Safa Attia carried out her studies at the Higher Institute of Languages in Tunis (ISLT) and obtained her M.A. in English Applied Linguistics at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid as an Erasmus-Battuta scholar. With a strong interest in the development of leadership and entrepreneurship skills, she is currently the North Regional coordinator of the Unleash Tunisia project within the NGO Young Leaders Entrepreneurs and the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).
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