A reliable newspaper should accommodate heterogeneity regarding geographical and psychological readers. The wider the coverage area of a newspaper, more heterogeneous its readers will be. By putting concerns on these two dimensions, is expected to be in neutral position. This impartiality or neutrality mass media becomes intriguing topic when it associated with theory arguing that language cann...

Conceptual Metaphors are part of human cognition and essential to knowledge experience. The study reported here examines the COVID-19 conceptual metaphors underlying metaphoric language employed by Jordanian government officials during two periods in 2020, namely from February May September December. To this end, a corpus official statements (n=213) Al-Rai ‘The Opinion’, an Arabic daily mainstr...

This paper addresses responses to news about the imposing of a local lockdown in UK city. The opposition measure shows it be controversial as does associated rejection grounds for taking action against covid more generally, which comes alongside devaluing expertise, resistance public health responses, proliferation conspiracy theories and misinformation harm that can caused by focussing on non-...

Nowadays mass media plays a crucial role in people’s lives. Online newspapers constitute part of discourse, which makes for extremely important bodies text the purposes research discourse analysis. In news headlines, careful and sensitive use is made linguistic devices order to make headlines unique different, influence readers, create trust newspaper, and, most importantly, invite encourage re...

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic—in terms climate, economy and social aspects—cannot yet be fully assessed, but we can already see how pandemic is intensifying existing socio-economic inequalities. This applies to different population groups, particularly elderly. In this article, our goal identify linguistic constructions elderly citizens in Swedish mass media coverage 2020 from a soc...

Selected by newspaper editors to keep specific topics current in the news, Letters Editor (LTE) have long intertwined with historical events, among which twentieth century Armenian genocide. At that time international humanitarian workers and political personalities made appeals reading public expressed their indignation for violence perpetrated civilians. Rarely, however, LTE been studied ling...