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Abstract
The present study examines several linguistic features in the discourse of female articles and their contribution to the construction of gender and national identities.
The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between written discourse and gender in female newspaper articles.
This study traces how identities are constructed and invoked in the discourse of female opinion articles.
The data for this study are opinion articles from the online versions of daily newspapers e.g. “El Youm Elsabeʕ”,
“El Watan”, “El Masry El Youm”, and “El Ahram”. The data cover the last two years period from 2011 until 2013. In this project, the data cover forty written articles by the following
female writers: Skina Fouad, Fatma Naaout, Nashwa Elhoufy, and Nihad Abu Elkumsan. All the above writers are
Egyptian contemporary female writers in the most popular Egyptian daily newspapers. These writers have been selected according to their popularity as female writers and regularity
in writing.
For the purpose of the study, an eclectic approach is adopted to cover the analysis of a number of significant
linguistic devices displayed in female articles. In the current study, the analysis of data moves from the micro analysis of words, through sentences and onto a larger scale of analysis
of the organization of the whole text. The analysis handles
the linguistic resources revealed by the data such as lexis, transitivity, modals, and argumentative patterns and devices.
The study findings show that the construction of national identity is predominant in the discourse of the
socialist female writers where the writers discursively construct their national through the discursive construction of unified national identity. The writers‟ national identity is accomplished through the constructive strategies of unification, identification, and differentiation. In the discourse of the feminist writers, the construction of gender and feminist identities is predominant. Unification and identification are linguistically and contextually achieved in the discourse of female articles.