A Critical Discourse Analysis on Media Excerpts

Subject Areas : Journal of Studies in Learning and Teaching English

Ghasem Tayebbi ¹ , Fatemeh Behjat ²

1 - Kazeroon Azad University
2 - Abadeh Azad University

Received: 2013-10-13 Accepted : 2013-12-13 Published : 2013-12-01

Keywords: Discourse Analysis, media discourse, representation analysis method,

Abstract :

As narrative discourses and discursive thematic frame- works on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct dif- ferent presentations of social actors, social events as well as social re- lations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more seri- ous considerations. To this end, the present study was an attempt to have a critical discourse analysis on two papers published on “attack to Ghaza”. Through a deep media discourse analysis, it was found that there is a pattern of who is speaking and in what way in mass media the meaning is constructed by journalistic conventions as well as by social norms, and by rules that in part are set by a political regime. It was re- vealed that conventions play a strong role as we apply a representation analysis method