This study presents a conceptual metaphor analysis of the Arab Israeli conflict in discourse journalist Thomas Freidman during time period 2001 till 2010. The utilizes Conceptual Metaphor Analysis and Frame analyzing data. research focuses on rendering metaphors used to depict writer’s discourse. principal tools are Lakoff Johnson’s cognitive theory (1980) Critical developed by Charteris-Black ...

in this paper attempts have been made to study the discourses dominating political islam to answer these questions: how can one categorize these diverse political islam discourses? what are the similarities and differences among these discourses in general, and with the islamic revolution discourse in particular? the research methodology employed for this study is historical-comparative and the...

This study is a critical discourse analysis aimed at examining the forms of ideology reflected in Western media coverage and development religious moderation policy Indonesia. The data this research consists vocabulary, sentences, text structures containing ideologies from news texts about Islamophobia sources used are television newspaper America Europe as well process collection carried out b...

the study of “context” has obtained a significant place in contemporary linguistic studies and many linguistic scholars, both in early and modern times, spent much effort on this domain until it became a fully-fledged theory by the english scholar firth. in the past, scholars paid attention to the “context” and its effect on the meaning studied the conditions surrounding the speech cont...

Nowadays, the Muslim community is under spotlight. The ongoing international debate over minorities identities reflects dilemma of their integration into non-Muslim modern multi-ethnic nations context multiculturalism. One typical example heated between West and China Chinese Muslims, also known as Uyghurs, through media discourse. Western media, such BBC, claim that assimilates forces Uyghurs ...

Sentences form coherent relations in a discourse without discourse connectives more frequently than with connectives. Senses of these implicit discourse relations that hold between a sentence pair, however, are challenging to infer. Here, we employ Brown cluster pairs to represent discourse relation and incorporate coreference patterns to identify senses of implicit discourse relations in natur...

Previous experimental studies on concessive connectives have only looked at their local facilitating or predictive effect on discourse relation comprehension and have often viewed them as a class of discourse markers with similar effects. We look into the effect of two connectives, but and although, for inferring contrastive vs. concessive discourse relations to complement previous experimental...

Studies of discourse relations have not, in the past, attempted to characterize what serves as evidence for them, beyond lists of frozen expressions, or markers, drawn from a few well-defined syntactic classes. In this paper, we describe how the lexicalized discourse relation annotations of the Penn Discourse Treebank (PDTB) led to the discovery of a wide range of additional expressions, annota...