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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Majid KhosravinikORCiD
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The contention over the name Persian Gulf has created a rich discursive site to investigate the discursive construction of Persian national and Arabic supranational identities at the heart of the Middle East. Away from the common concentration of critical discourse studies on institutionally produced texts/content (e.g., mass media), the current critical discourse analysis study investigates bottom-up discursive practices on social media—namely, user-generated content on YouTube pages and commentaries on online news articles—to explore the construction of an imagined pan-Arabic identity versus its regional rival, the Persian identity. We argue that by emphasizing fault lines of language and religion, Arabism discourse substantially draws on historical regional power struggles within a contemporary frame o
Author(s): KhosraviNik M, Sarkhoh N
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Communication
Year: 2017
Volume: 11
Pages: 3614-3633
Print publication date: 30/09/2017
Acceptance date: 24/07/2017
Date deposited: 03/10/2017
ISSN (electronic): 1932-8036
Publisher: USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
URL: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/6062/2133
