Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and, Ullmann..

Name: Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and, Ullmann..
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Taylor & Francis

Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and PoliticsAuthor(s): Stefanie Ullmann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367432379, 978-0367432379\nSynopsis\nDrawing on approaches from critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and cognitive linguistics, this book critically examines metaphorical language used in global media coverage and political statements on the events of the Arab Spring. \n\nThe volume begins by summarising key events of the Arab Spring, tracing the development of protests from Tunisia and Egypt to Libya and Syria as well as the wider impact on the region. Ullmann builds on this foundation to lay out the theoretical frameworks to be applied to an extensive corpus of natural language and actual discourse highlighting Western, Middle Eastern, and North African perspectives which integrate theoretical work on metaphor, blending theory, and semantic prosodies. Methodological considerations on .