Functional Linguistic Analysis of Selected News Stories of Sheikh Jarrah | ||||
| مجلة الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية | ||||
| Volume 101, Issue 2, June 2025, Page 397-421 PDF (493.18 K) | ||||
| Document Type: مقالات مکملة لبحوث الدکتوراه والماجیستیر | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/fjhj.2025.289032.1621 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
مها أحمد فرغلي عبد المجيد 
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| قسم اللغة الإنجليزية- كلية الألسن بالغردقة -جامعة جنوب الوادي | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This paper conducts a systemic functional linguistic analysis for a selection of published online news stories on Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. The adopted theoretical framework encompasses what Halliday (1994) proposed as the three metafunctions of language analysis. The quest of Halliday’s framework is to reach a knowledge of what a text communicates to its readers. The analysis addresses the transitivity system embedded in the sentence to identify actors, action processes, and the surrounding circumstances (ideational). Afterwards, an analysis of mood and modality follows to provide an insight into the created mood in the text and the deployed modals and modalities of perception (interpersonal). Lastly, an analysis of the texture investigates the thematized utterances throughout and the scheme of categorization and lexical cohesion (textual). The selected news stories of Sheikh Jarrah involve a conflict between the Israeli forces and settlers versus the Palestinian families and residents. Consequently, they demonstrate a great deal of categorization to incriminate certain actors or sympathize with them. The selected news stories belong to various online platforms such as: Jweekly News, DW, Ara, MAP, etc. The objective of the analysis is to reveal the underlying communicative functions of the deployed linguistic elements. Moreover, the analysis looks into the means by which the text producers achieved the required metafunction. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| transitivity system; mood and modality; texture; online news stories on Sheikh Jarrah; Halliday (1994) | ||||
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