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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Communication
Computer and Information Sciences
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Environment
Humans
Intertextuality
Language
Linguistics
Localization
People and places
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Sustainable Development
Tourism
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