Elyas Tariq, Aljabri Abdulrahman, Mujaddadi Abrar, Almohammadi Alaa, Oraif Iman, Alrawi Maather, AlShurfa Nuha, Rasheed Aseel
King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Electronic University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Int J Semiot Law. 2023;36(2):869-892. doi: 10.1007/s11196-022-09933-2. Epub 2022 Aug 27.
COVID-19 has struck the world in an unprecedented way. Countries quickly tried to counter the rapid spread of the virus by imposing strict measures and national lockdowns. At the same time, some governments took advantage of the pandemic to besmirch their opponents. We utilize van Dijk (J Polit Ideol 11(2):115-140 2006) critical discourse analysis model to investigate how newspaper headlines reacted to COVID-19 from through ideological lenses. Results show that while the US implied that China is the origin of the virus, headlines in Arab newspapers showed that Saudi Arabia blamed travel to Iran for the early increases of COVID-19 cases.
新冠疫情以前所未有的方式冲击了世界。各国迅速试图通过实施严格措施和全国封锁来应对病毒的快速传播。与此同时，一些政府利用这场疫情来诋毁他们的对手。我们运用范·迪克（《政治意识形态》第11卷第2期：115 - 140页，2006年）的批判性话语分析模型，从意识形态角度研究报纸头条对新冠疫情的反应。结果显示，美国暗示中国是病毒起源地，而阿拉伯报纸的头条表明沙特阿拉伯将新冠疫情早期病例增加归咎于前往伊朗的旅行。
