Abstract:
The present study aims at investigating the underlying ideo-political underpinnings of the news stories in three selected newspaper coverage of Syrian conflicts. In this regard, Washington Post, AFP and KayhanInternational were selected as the representatives of three ideo-political voices. From within the voluminous news stories in these papers, a sample of six news items was selected. Hodge-Kress model of CDA was drawn upon to account for the micro and macro structure of the select news stories. The data was analyzed within an essentially linguistically oriented framework of CDA. Accordingly, five influential discursive structures,i.e., naming, nominalization, causality andagency were selected to be analyzed through Hodge and Kress Model. The reliability of the analysis was ascertained using inter-rater reliability method. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. The results of Chi-Square test showed that there are significant differences in the type and tenor of ideological representations among the select news stories. Accordingly, there was a significant difference between the selected media in using two discursive structures of nominalization and agency while the difference was not significant in naming and causality. The results also revealed that the press representation of Syrian conflicts are ideo-politically biased, which may account for the multi-directional power relations in media discourse.
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Critical Discourse Analysis: A Study towards Translating Ideas News in * Focus Azizollah Dabaghi Assistant Prof of Applied Linguistics, The University of Isfahan Ehsan Panahbar PhD Candidate in Translation Studies Abstract The present study aims at investigating the underlying ideo-political underpinnings of the news stories in three selected newspaper coverage of Syrian conflicts.
The results of Chi-Square test showed that there are significant differences in the type and tenor of ideological representations among the select news stories.
The results also revealed that the press representation of Syrian conflicts are ideo-politically biased, which may account for the multi-directional power relations in media discourse.
In this regard, the present study put the structures of three selected printed media under the critical lenses in order to evaluate the representation of Syrian unrest in media using Hodge and Kress model (1996).
In the present study, the use of four discursive features is investigated in the news stories in three selected media, Washington Post, Agence France Presse (AFP) and Kayhan International, over Syrian unrest.
1. 5 He highlighted the lifting of the emergency law in Syria, the introduction of changes in the country's electoral process, and media laws, as well as other instances of political reformation as examples of 'true reforms' implemented by the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Press TV reported.
Syria hails 'historic' Russia, China vetoes (October 5, 2011) Naming The headline of the story 1 contains two instances of indirect naming so that the people protesting against the current Syrian regime are referred to as "dissidents" and efforts by the third party countries to make a potential military intervention in Syria are referred to as "foreign intervention".