Children Trapped in Gaza: A Multimodal Framing Analysis of English and Arabic News Discourse (2023-2024) الأطفال المحاصرون في غزة: تحليل تأطيري متعدد الوسائط للخطاب الإخباري باللغتين الإنجليزية والعربية في عامي 2023و2024

Ashmawi, Ghada

doi:10.21608/kgef.2025.383934.1258

Children Trapped in Gaza: A Multimodal Framing Analysis of English and Arabic News Discourse (2023-2024) الأطفال المحاصرون في غزة: تحليل تأطيري متعدد الوسائط للخطاب الإخباري باللغتين الإنجليزية والعربية في عامي 2023و2024

نوع المستند : المقالة الأصلية

المؤلف

Ghada Ashmawi

Department of English/Faculty of Al Alsun/ Ain Shams University/Cairo/Egypt

10.21608/kgef.2025.383934.1258

المستخلص

This study examines how the suffering of Gazan children during the 2023–2024 war is framed in English and Arabic news discourse through both textual and visual elements. The study uses the theory of Framing analysis which is an interdisciplinary theory that integrates knowledge from communication studies, linguistics, sociology, psychology, and media studies. A total of twenty news articles were selected for analysis, five each from The Washington Post, The Telegraph, Al Jazeera, and Al Ahram Online. The study aims at: exploring how the framing analysis of the news articles on children’s suffering in Gaza reveals how the audience perceives and conceptualizes the issue; exploring how integrative textual and visual framing analysis of the English and Arabic news articles provides a more holistic understanding of how meanings are constructed and interpreted to influence the audience; and finally, comparing and contrasting the textual and visual framing of children’s suffering in Gaza in English and Arabic news articles. This study proves that integrating textual and visual framing analysis provides a more comprehensive understanding of how children's suffering in Gaza is constructed and communicated to the audience. Additionally, visual frames often have an immediate and powerful emotional effect that reinforces the textual message. Moreover, text and image work together in framing Gazan children’s humanitarian crises, thereby, influencing audience’s perceptions, moral judgements, and calls to action.

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