The Saudi Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SMDA), signed on 17 September 2025, marks a new epoch of bilateral and strategic partnership between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Focusing on the high-impact influence of state communication, this research paper investigates the alignment, convergence and integration of state-mediated communication in mainstream English-language print media within the framework of Robert Entman's 1993 framing theory. The investigation is grounded in Entman's theory (1993), starting from narrative construction to its impact on the desired target audience. A qualitative content analysis of four mainstream English–language newspapers, i.e Daily Dawn, The News International, The Express Tribune and The Nation, is carried out. The study aimed to evaluate the quintessential elements of the framing model, i.e problem definition, causal attribution, moral evaluation, and policy recommendations, with a view to assessing observable patterns of narrative convergence in the historical milestone of the Saudi Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement (SMDA) 2025 that shaped new horizons in defense, diplomacy and bilateral engagements.
In the contemporary geopolitical landscape, communication through social media platforms acts as the space to construct the narrative of war and peace. However, existing literature failed to address how the adversarial political actors utilize social media to construct their favorable narratives. This study examines th...
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This study examines the impact of the Iran-Israel conflict on government communication narratives and crisis communication strategies in Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Indonesia and ASEAN. The study is qualitative with an exploratory approach and uses secondary data obtained from online media, official gove...
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The study uses the socio cognitive framework of critical discourse analysis by Van Dijk (2006) to inspect the ways in which immigrant identity is constructed in Pakistani English language newspapers. Immigrants are often viewed as a social burden and it has become imperative to understand how media texts reflect and al...
Shanza Saleem, Ansa Hayyat· Journal of Applied Linguisti...· 0 citations
This study examines how BBC and Reuters represent the empowerment of Saudi women under Vision 2030 in their English-language reporting, and what happens to that representation when the same outlets publish it in Arabic. Research on Saudi women in Western media has grown steadily, yet the Arabic translations, which reac...
Lulwah Alhesyan· Arab World English Journal F...· 0 citations
Digital news media have become influential arenas in which national identity, conflict, and international relations are discursively constructed. This study examines how Bangladeshi and Indian online news media frame Bangladesh–India border politics and identifies the discursive strategies through which conflict-ori...
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Drawing upon Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and integrating corpus-based approaches, this study constructs a corpus consisting of English diplomatic speeches delivered by representatives of China to the United Nations between 2012 and 2025. Through frequency analysis, keyword...
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