This study is an attempt to examine how France 24 and Al-Jazeera represented the Algerian Hirak movement. The study at hand draws on Fairclough's (1995) three-dimensional framework and Van Dijk's ideological square to compare and contrast the depiction of both media outlets at the textual and discursive levels. The sample consisted of 24 articles taken form the two media outlets. In order to analyse the aforementioned news articles, the researchers opted for Van Dijk's Ideological Square (1998) and Fairclough's Three-Dimensional Model (1989, 1995. The findings revealed that both media outlets recognised the Algerian protestors as "the ingroup" and the regime's figures as "the outgroup". This was evident in the absence of any negative predications or reported speech that may delineate the protest or the protestors as illegal. However, while Al-Jazeera highlighted the peacefulness of the Algerian movement, France 24 kept focusing on the presence of the police and the protestors' detention. Moreover, Al-Jazeera depicted the Algerian movement explicitly and held a relatively more objective stance than France 24. The latter tended to manipulate the events, such as exaggerating the reaction of the police particularly in the first three months of the Hirak movement. The hidden ideology of France 24 was evident and it could be seen in the foregrounded elements in the passivized constructions, the repetition of sensitive topics, such as the Amazigh flag and the extensive use ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The present study sheds lights on the French loanwords which are integrated in the Algerian Spoken Arabic (ASA), particularly the dialect spoken in the Eastern part. It identifies the phonological processes used to adapt them within an Optimality Theory (OT) framework. A thorough scrutiny of the data indicated that the French loanwords underwent a number of adaptations to fit into the phonological system of the Algerian Arabic. Moreover, the results revealed that this nativization process involves a number of phonological processes, namely unpacking of nasal vowels, nasal place assimilation, vowel deletion, front vowel raising, voicing, devoicing and stopping, in addition to lateral assimilation. The application of optimality framework as to explicate the adaptations of French loanwords has shown that they emanate from a steady conflict between the faithfulness constraints, which condition the preservation of original input forms, and the markedness constraints describing the Algerian Arabic marked phonological system.

This paper discusses the Berber language situation in Algeria in a language policy and planning context. It comprises two main parts. The first provides a general account of the linguistic profile of Algeria coupled with a historical context of the Berber language and Algerian Arabic. In order to develop a deeper understanding of the present issue, the second section is devoted to the Berber language planning, and the socio-political context of its recognition as the second official language alongside Arabic. In accordance with Hornberger’s (2006) Integrative Framework, the study provides a critical examination of the Berber language planning process, i.e., corpus and acquisition planning, and explores the challenges language planners are facing.

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