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https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38644
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2016
2020-05-01T06:55:44
vi, 118 pages
Doctoral Dissertation
Academic theses
Electronic discussion groups--Saudi Arabia.
Electronic discussion groups
Text
eng
Alharbi, Badr
Adams, Karen L
Long, Elenore
Warriner, Doris
Arizona State University
Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2016
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-114)
Field of study: English
The aim of this study was to investigate the issue of Saudi women’s right to drive through a critical analysis of the Saudi online discourse on women’s right to drive. In the study, the attempt was made to provide a critical contrastive analysis of the online debate for and against Saudi women’s right to drive. A review of the literature indicated that very little research has been done about critical discourse analysis (CDA) of online texts focusing on the representation and rights of Saudi women. Employing Fairclough’s three-dimensional framework, a corpus of written posts on the right to drive, written by Saudi women, was analyzed at three levels: (a) textual analysis, (b) discursive practice analysis, and (c) sociocultural practice. The findings of the analysis on the textual and discursive practice levels showed that the theme of ingroup and outgroup presentation was significant in the data. The findings also indicated that ideologies were expressed linguistically by means of naming, presuppositions, predication, and intertextuality. At the sociocultural practice level, the controversial struggle about the right to drive was situated in its broader sociocultural context, in which the complexity of the sociocultural practice of the Saudi Society was revealed.
Linguistics
Critical Discourse Analysis
Saudi women
Discourse analysis
Automobile driving--Saudi Arabia--Public opinion.
Automobile driving
Women's rights--Saudi Arabia--Public opinion.
Women's rights
Sex discrimination against women--Saudi Arabia.
Sex discrimination against women
The Saudi online discourse on the right to drive: a contrastive critical analysis