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Aug 2026
The Discourse of Defeat: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Arab National Teams at the 2026 World Cup
“The Arab world” is routinely invoked as a single cultural bloc, and the record eight Arab nations at the 2026 FIFA World Cup were framed as a single collective story. This study asks whether that assumed unity survives the stark exhibition of national identity in defeat, and what the answer reveals about power dynamic...
Mounir Chader, Ahmed Smirkou
· Journal of Pragmatics and Di... · 0 citations