Palestinian and Israeli Voices in Five Years of U.S. Newspaper Discourse

• In Event: Deconstructing Myths: Analyses of Mass Mediated Images of Minority Identities

Abstract

This paper describes a discourse analysis of newspaper coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over a five-year period, 2002 through 2006. A discourse analysis was conducted on the linguistic structures, textual properties and stylistic devices of the stories in the sample. The major conclusions of this study concern the quoting of civilians and officials on both sides of the conflict, the use of words denoting violence and negative emotion, denoting conflict, and denoting positivity.

Author

• Eugenie Almeida, Fayetteville State University