Overview
- Analyzes factors influencing British coverage of Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Explores language used to create bias in Western media
- Combines linguistic and media analysis
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the portrayal of the Palestinian-Israeli ‘conflict’ by looking at the language used in its reporting and how this can, in turn, influence public opinion. The book explores how language use helps frame an event to elicit a particular interpretation from the reader and how this can be manipulated to introduce bias. Sirhan begins the book by examining the history of the ‘conflict’, and the many persistent myths that surround it. She analyses how five events in the ‘conflict’ (two in which the Palestinians are victims, two in which the Israelis are victims, and Operation Cast Lead) are reported in five British newspapers: The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, and The Times. By looking at these events across a range of newspapers, the book investigates differences in the way that the media report each side, before exploring what factors motivate these differences – including issues of bias, censorship, lobbying, and propaganda.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Nadia R. Sirhan is a linguist and a freelance Arabic translator. She earned a PhD in Arabic linguistics from SOAS, University of London, UK. Her previous works include Folk Stories and Personal Narratives in Palestinian Spoken Arabic (2014) and Mastering Arabic Vocabulary (2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reporting Palestine-Israel in British Newspapers
Book Subtitle: An Analysis of British Newspapers
Authors: Nadia R. Sirhan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17072-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17071-4Published: 29 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17074-5Published: 30 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17072-1Published: 28 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 256
Topics: Journalism, Cultural Heritage, Linguistic Anthropology, British Culture