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Abstract

The rhetoric of fear has become a significant point of reference in the language we use now days. The inevitable question is what does make us fearful? The answer, of course, is not surprising since media has an important role in influencing the “language usage” and stimulating people’s emotions. This study focuses on the language of news and how it is used to construct and maintain fear. It concentrates on the emotion of fear, which is trigged through anxiety, risk and threat. The dataset represents certain selected news videos’ titles derived from Al Jazeera English channel on YouTube in the period 2022–2024 to account for their role in creating and conveying fear through the language of news. Halliday’s transitivity system is adopted to achieve the aim of the study. The findings show that different transitivity choices are used to show how the language of news’ titles is imbued with fear.

Keywords

News discourse, Fear, Transitivity, Emotions

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