The Topoi of Mandela's Death in the Arabic Speaking Media: A Corpus-Based Political Discourse Analysis

The present study attempts a political discourse analysis of spoken Arabic corpus on the death Nelson Mandela. mainly consists coverage some Arabic-speaking TV channels that was broadcasted in aftermath announcement Mandela's 2013. discourse-historical approach employed with view to finding out various topoi and ideologies deployed corpus. For this purpose, used first transcribed using EUDICO Linguistic Annotator (ELAN), transcription tool for multimodal texts. Afterward, compiled Sketch Engine enable researchers process data automatically hence use different computational tools can assist topoi. A collocations, wordlists, N-grams, concordance features provide more precise context uncover participants/politicians. findings showed abounds are not necessarily related Mandela or his death, but they rather heated issues countries Middle East. Politicians have shifted their focus from main topic which is conflicts plights such as Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Palestine. media platform express feelings compare Arab leaders respective countries. has sometimes transcended speaking about deployment projection certain interviewees. Those only confined one participant's country, representative identity concerns at large.