Ideological representations of political discourse in the Arabic and Anglophone media outlets

Such media manipulation and polarisation produce greatly varying representations and labelling of the rival groups, in the particular case of this thesis, the warring factions in the Libyan Civil War. and it is this which in turn produces a variety of representations of the same incident and groups.

The study applies the analytical model of the ideological square of Critical Discourse Analysis as this model provides scope to identify ideological discursive moves and strategies for analysis of the salient Ideological Key Terms. In this study, the particular incident on the ground is considered as a source text, while the media representation and reporting on the incident and people are seen as a target text. This study, accordingly, attempts to demonstrate as systematically as possible how the media outlets as translators of the Libyan Civil War of 2014 manipulate the representation of the incident so as to suit and correspond to the policies and the controlling vision of the financiers and/or owners.