This dissertation utilized the critical discourse analysis framework to analyze linguistic persuasive strategies, hidden meanings, and ideologies in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s discourses to maintain his power. To do this, the study uncovers the mechanism that President Kenyatta …
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I examined all cases of United States foreign policies of overt violence, bounded by and including, Vietnam (1964-1969) and Iraq (2003-2007). The objective was to use Orientalism in order to increase our understanding of such policies. What this research showed was quite contrar…
This dissertation employs the method of critical discourse analysis to investigate the relationship among discourse, power, and knowledge in U.S. news coverage of the "honor killing" of Noor Faleh Almaleki. Building upon Western European research on "honor-killing" news coverage…
This study examines how Islamists are socially, discursively and linguistically represented in the Egyptian newspaper al-Ahram . The main question of this study is what would the Egyptian government do to halt the Brothers' political growth and potential threat? To answer this q…
Military service has long been identified as one of the prime signifiers of membership in the Israeli collective, and as such plays a central role in practices of civil inclusion and exclusion. Against the background of perceived changes in the Israel Defense Forces' status in I…
Understanding teacher identity and identity formation has become a key component in determining how English language teaching is performed (Varghese, Morgan, Johnston, & Johnson, 2005). In the existing literature, however, the identities of nonnative English-speaking teachers (n…
The news media serve as the Canadian public’s main source of information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This thesis examines the ways in which the Canadian media portray the conflict, through a lens of Habermas’ (1962) public sphere theory, Foucault’s (1926 – 1984) idea…
This thesis analyzes representations of female resistors of the Mojahedin-e Khalq or People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran within contemporary schools of academia and western/Iranian medias. Theoretically informed by critical discourse analysis and feminist thought this projec…
This thesis is an analysis of performance, linguistic repetition, and silence in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's March 30, 2011 speech to the People's Assembly given 2 weeks after riots erupted in the Syrian province of Deraa on March 15, 2011. Various types of repetition inc…
Previous studies of African news coverage tend to look at very specific events or spectacles. Looking to take a more holistic view of media coverage of Africa and understanding the prominent agenda setting role the New York Times plays in international reporting, this study eval…
This study examined the representation of national and religious dimensions of Iranian history and identity in Iranian middle school history textbooks. Furthermore, through a qualitative case study in a school in the capital city of Tehran, teachers' use of textbooks in classroo…
This paper presents the results of a critical discourse analysis of a selection of Canada's security texts and argues that the country's security discourses construct Muslims as dangerous and different from the normative Canadian. The research relies on a social constructionist …
This study examines biases against the use of Nigerian Pidgin English in social settings. It also compares the usage between those who speak the preferred Standard English versus those who speak the Nonstandard English, Nigerian Pidgin English by analyzing the conversations betw…
In recent decades, significant bodies of research have emerged with regard to understanding (a) Indigenous identities as “glocal” expressions (e.g., Minde 2008; Niezen 2003; Bigenho 2007), (b) Christian Zionism (e.g., Ariel 1991; Spector 2009), and (c) how ideology and power rel…
Personal Status Laws in Egypt are the secular translation of religious law into the modern legal system. These laws address a variety of issues, but are mainly concerned with regulation of the family and marital relationships. Personal Status Laws are politically controversial, …
Utilizing a Critical Discourse Analysis approach, this study compares and contrasts Al-Ahram and Aljazeera online coverage of Egypt's 2011 Revolution. Following Fairclough's three-dimensional framework, the study examines how the two outlets represented the protests and the anta…
This study employs Critical Discourse Analysis to explore the evolution of Saudi print media discourse on the U.S. between September 11, 2001 and December 30, 2013. In particular, the study investigates how ideological stances and attitudes toward the U.S. during this period are…
“Power” is a word with myriad definitions and has been studied by linguists and other scholars in as many contexts. Kiesling (1998) identifies seven varieties of power from which roles may be built, Fairclough (1992) indicates that power can be both overt and covert, and Foucaul…
Little research has been done on how ideology and identity are reflected within pop culture in Saudi Arabia. This thesis analyzes a set of comics created by Saudi artist Abdullah Jabber. These comics are notable for discussing some issues in Saudi community. The artist chose to …