THE NEAR AND DISTANT DISCOURSE TOWARDS DISASTERLE DISCOURS PROCHE ET LOINTAIN ENVERS LA CATASTROPHE

: When it comes to talk about a disaster, is not easy maintain the objectivity and neutrality towards event. Emotions can be very explicit, especially when speaker “related” people affected. “Related” with means kinship does only mean being member of one's family, but also same region, country, or even ethnic group. This research aims making linguistic discursive comparison between discourse two different cultures (Arab Western) catastrophe. We will take as an example, disaster Jordanian school bus which was swept away by torrential rains in 2018 caused death 20 people, mostly schoolchildren. are going do analysis texts dealt this catastrophe Western press on one hand, Arab other hand