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Abstract
This study applies the cognitive approach to critical discourse analysis to selected Arabic and English online newspaper articles covering the “war on terror”. Its first aim is to investigate the concept of clusivity and how it is manifested in the ”War on Terror” discourse. Clusivity refers to the different strategies of inclusion and exclusion that are linguistically coded in discourse.In order to successfully uncover relations of inclusion and exclusion present in the analyzed discourse, clusivity has been analyzed on a pragmatic and cognitive level. This is done through comparing the pragma-cognitive strategies of proximization, and ideological square and their role in marking clusivity. The second aim is to figure out how the ”Us” and ”Them” relationship is linguistically portrayed and framed in the ”war on terror” discourse and how linguistic expressions contribute to the investigation of the cognitive frame construction and framing process used in online news discourse. The study adopts Force Dynamics Modelto illustrate the cognitive frame and its framing process that news discourse constructs. The data of the study consists of selected online Arabic and English news articles taken from Al-Ahram,Al-Masry Al-Youm, The Washington Post and The Guardian official online platforms.The analysis is pragma-cognitive in nature due to the tendency of CDA to concentrate in more detail on the complexity of various social phenomena rather than on putting focus on linguistic properties of the analyzed discourse.