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Abstract present study IS conducted within the framework of the concept of ical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Four analytic tools are explored, namely Modality, Metadiscourse, and Presupposition, The analysis aru.c’’Ies .lak~J1 rr-rom a peno• u l Inlat. runs up (to l0clOol{)~T.”:”lV, 20”lJ”lJ. article is taken from each uf the following sources: Time (an American gazine), Al-Ahrum Weekly (an Egyptian newspaper), Asharq At-Awsat (a di newspaper), Le MontIe (a FT~J1dl newspaper), AI-Quolls Al-Arabl (a estinian newspaper). The articles are, to a great extent, of the same length they are not front page news or the main featured story. They were on the basis that their headlines connected them directly to lhe under question in the present study, and, consequently, they would re likely be noticed by the readers. The main objectives of this study Iall into lwu general areas: First,. to provide a theoretical background for the analysis of the relationship between language, ideology, and power. 2. Second, to apply this methodology to a specific set of news articles that r.acx”re tlne same m. ciu. e1n t orro.l me muro1er orro M0hammec• Al- ~uurra, identify the major ideological implications, and thus establish a relationship between the use of language and the manifestaticns of ideology and power. uwever, there is a secondary objective that needs to be investig-died, that is a lation to be set between the hnguistic findings that have been attained and e present reality of both the Arabic and the international setting. |