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Abstract
The present study aims to investigate online newspaper articles of violent acts which took
place in the year 2015. The articles are mainly analyzed according to Mona Baker’s narrative
theory, as the main framework, presented in her book Translation and Conflict: A Narrative
Account (2006). This theory gives the researcher the chance to investigate texts on the macro
level and to go through texts and their translations on the micro level as well. Drawing on
features of narratives and farming strategies discussed in Baker’s book, the researcher has
been able to analyze the articles, drawing special attention to the labelling framing strategy in
the theory to investigate how different doers of the violent acts are described and whether the
descriptions are the same in the translated texts. The researcher has chosen articles from two
Arabic news websites and two English news websites for three violent events that happened
in the West to draw a comparative narrative analysis according to the features of the narrative
theory. This corpus represents different voices and descriptions of the same violent acts. In
addition, a parallel translation analysis is done on the micro level of words, sentences, and
texts. Moreover, drawing upon Roberto Franzosi’s book Quantitative Narrative Analysis
(2010), the researcher analyzes texts quantitatively according to the methods discussed in the
book. The main aim of this thesis is to investigate whether different news websites aim at
spreading a meta- narrative in their societies to support their ideological views. By
investigation, the researcher has found that the various news websites use different labelling
of events and of doers involved in those events according to their ideologies. In addition,
quantitatively, the researcher has observed that Arabic news websites have noticeably used a
higher percentage of violent words than those used in English news websites.