Yemen's Revolution…A Political Change Or Sectarian Conflict A Cda Study From Aje's Ideological Perspective

Research Article
Hanan Al- Radhi
DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijrsr.2017.0806.0435
Subject: 
science
KeyWords: 
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA); Media Discourse; Ideology; Macro and Micro Structures; "Self" and "Other" presentations; Yemen; AJE.
Abstract: 

This study aimed to explore consequences of Arab spring that prevailed in Yemen after 2010-2011 as reflected by AJE's online news article released in its website 2013. The main aim of the study is to unveil AJE's hidden ideologies towards Arab spring upheaval in Yemen investigating its discoursal ''Self'' and ''Other'' representations. In order to achieve this goal, the researcher utilized the following theories: 1) van Dijk's theory of Semantic Macrostructure (1980); to examine macro and micro structures of AJE's online news article, 2) van Dijk's theory of Ideological Square (1998c); to examine AJE's ideologies embedded within its online news article and 3) Wodak's Discourse- Historical Approach; to endorse linguistic and ideological analysis of AJE's online news article. Fairclough's three-dimensional Approach was utilized, as well, to organize the process of analysis of the study's text. Within the linguistic analysis, macro and micro structures of AJE's online news article were analyzed. At the macro level, the semantic macrostructure was outlined to determine its global meaning. At the micro level, the syntactic, lexical and rhetorical structures were examined to determine their local meaning. Within the ideological analysis, the AJE's online news article was analyzed to determine its ideological positive ''Self'' (in-group) and negative ''Other'' (out-group) presentations. The findings revealed that AJE's ideological orientations towards Yemen were varied. Thus, it presented the Sunni Salafists as the positive "Self" identities while the Shia houthi rebels as the negative "Other'' identities.