Legilinguistic Features of a Semantic Field: COVID-19 in Written News/Media in Hebrew and Arabic

This paper examines and compares some legilinguistic features in news/media reports Hebrew, Arabic Israel Egypt during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020 beginning of 2021. The goal was to find frequent innovated expressions communication media period. research question was, since there are linguistic differences between these language-varieties: would be found also on level? Hebrew were studied because their different status. In Israel, is dominant official language, while a minority language. Egypt, material collected from two channels each Modern Egypt. Selected news texts analyzed examples lexical syntactic elements presented. revealed similar methods for controlling pandemic, (lexical syntactic) differences. comparison with literature suggests that findings texts' differ discussed other studies.