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Fouad, F. (2019). Salience and Erasure Techniques in Selected Egyptian Newspaper Articles Covering the Swine Flu: An Ecolinguistic Analysis. CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 68(1), 559-578. doi: 10.21608/opde.2019.132694
Fayrouz Fouad Fouad. "Salience and Erasure Techniques in Selected Egyptian Newspaper Articles Covering the Swine Flu: An Ecolinguistic Analysis". CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 68, 1, 2019, 559-578. doi: 10.21608/opde.2019.132694
Fouad, F. (2019). 'Salience and Erasure Techniques in Selected Egyptian Newspaper Articles Covering the Swine Flu: An Ecolinguistic Analysis', CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 68(1), pp. 559-578. doi: 10.21608/opde.2019.132694
Fouad, F. Salience and Erasure Techniques in Selected Egyptian Newspaper Articles Covering the Swine Flu: An Ecolinguistic Analysis. CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education, 2019; 68(1): 559-578. doi: 10.21608/opde.2019.132694

Salience and Erasure Techniques in Selected Egyptian Newspaper Articles Covering the Swine Flu: An Ecolinguistic Analysis

Article 19, Volume 68, Issue 1, October 2019, Page 559-578  XML PDF (791.12 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/opde.2019.132694
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Author
Fayrouz Fouad Fouad
Abstract
Ecolinguistics is concerned with the relationship between language and ecology. Adopting an ecolinguistic approach based on Stibbe's model of analyzing language and ecology (2015), this paper investigates the techniques of salience and erasure and their role in revealing the dominant ecological ideologies inherent in the coverage of the swine flu epidemic in selected Egyptian newspaper articles. The study attempts to show whether the articles under investigation took a beneficial or destructive approach to the ecosystem. The study reveals that the sample articles mostly tend to erase animals from the discourse through backgrounding, objectification, suppression, and the discursive masking of their suffering
Keywords
ecolinguistics; salience; erasure; beneficial versus destructive discourse; passivization - nominalization
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