Environmental sustainability in the online media discourses of Saudi Arabia: A corpus-based study of keyness, intertextuality, and interdiscursivity

This paper investigates the online discourses on "sustainability" and explores how environmental sustainability has been constructed within the Saudi online discourse. In doing so, the study focuses on the potential of the Saudi Green Initiative (SGI), along with Green Riyadh and King Salm...

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Published in:PloS one 2022-11, Vol.17 (11), p.e0277253-e0277253
Main Author: Almaghlouth, Shrouq
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biology and Life Sciences
Climate change
Communication
Computer and Information Sciences
Discourse analysis
Earth Sciences
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Environment
Humans
Intertextuality
Language
Linguistics
Localization
People and places
Perceptions
Saudi Arabia
Social Sciences
Sustainability
Sustainable Development
Tourism
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Summary:This paper investigates the online discourses on "sustainability" and explores how environmental sustainability has been constructed within the Saudi online discourse. In doing so, the study focuses on the potential of the Saudi Green Initiative (SGI), along with Green Riyadh and King Salman Park, to promote sustainability awareness in the kingdom. The corpus of the study comprises news articles and Twitter hashtags. In addition, the study uses corpus-based discourse analysis to examine the keyness and intertextuality. The results of the study convey a contextualized national identity while communicating internationally within discursive circles. It is also identified that interdiscursivity is central in the corpus, although the discourse of action especially dominated other smaller discourses, such as consequences/risks, economy, and tourism. The results also indicate the prominent construction of officials, which could be linked to the dynamics of change in the Saudi scene. Finally, the study emphasizes the action-oriented nature of such discourse while drawing attention to some of the challenging issues to long-term advocacy in the country.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0277253