A Pragmatic Study of Fabrication in Israeli Newspaper Articles

Abstract

The present study is concerned with the concept of fabrication through the lenis of pragmatics. The study aims to investigate the aspects of fabrication in Israeli news reports concerning the war of Gaza. The present study aims at finding  out the cues of fabricated news reports and finding out what are the speech acts that are mostly used in news fabrication. The study come up with the following results: Israeli news reports use certain cues to fabricate their reports such as delivering half of the truth and lying. The reporters resorts mainly to representative speech act of reporting as they deliver the fabricated news from the military leaders.