A Pragma-Discoursal Study of News Conflict in Arabic Media

News conflict is an old-new topic that has been scrutinized and studied from different angles. yet, no attempt of a comprehensive pragmadiscoursal treatment or analysis of the pragmatic elements of news discourse has been spotted. thus, this work concerns itself with the attempt of designing a rather comprehensive pragma-discoursal approach to investigate news conflict. this incorporates investigating the most observable pragma-discoursal means employed by two ideologicallycontradicting news channels, namely, al-jazeera and al-ittijah satellite channels in viewing news and events; identifying the major pragmadiscoursal devices exploited by al- jazeera and al-ittijah satellite channels for achieving their ideologically-contradicting aims. in light of these aims the study hypothesizes that foregrounded themes, modality, lexical cohesion, collocation and pragma-rhetorical tropes are the most readily observable collocation and foregrounding are themajor processes manifested in presenting news and events that are used by both channels underinvestigation.