ABSTRACT
This book seeks to examine transnational Arabic media discourses and strategies in the coverage of Covid-19. It aims to provide an in-depth textual analysis of the coverage of Covid-19 by the Al-Jazeera and BBC networks, establishing therefore the inextricable link between language and the socio-cultural and political ideologies that contribute to the production of media discourse of Covid-19. Some of these ideologies are represented through the choice of language and lexis, which are highlighted and analysed. To do so, different approaches and frameworks have been adopted for the analysis, including critical discourse analysis. The data consists of corpora of 611,803 terms, extracted from Al-Jazeera and BBC Arabic. The book comprises six chapters, as follows:
Chapter 1: Media Discourse: Approaches and Strategies
Chapter 2: Media and the Framing of Voices During Covid-19
Chapter 3: Representation of Victims of Covid-19
Chapter 4: A Discourse of Solidarity or Disunity?
Chapter 5: The Discourse of Lockdowns: Opportunities and Challenges
Chapter 6: Framing and Labelling the “Other”
