THE DEMOCRATIC UNION PARTY (PYD) AND PEOPLE'S PROTECTION UNITS (YPG) IN TURKISH OFFICIAL DISCOURSE

World Affairs ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004382002110635
Author(s):  
Azad Deewanee
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
International Community ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Official Position ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Justice And Development Party

This article explores the construction of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and the People's Protection Units (YPG) in Turkish official discourse. In the article, I employ critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyze written texts produced during the years 2014–2019 that reflect the position of the Turkish authorities. The article sets out the main narratives that construct the PYD and YPG as terrorist organizations and posits them as a threat to both Turkey and the international community. The analysis reveals that these narratives serve the purpose of delegitimizing the PYD and YPG and legitimizing Turkish military operations and violations against Syrian Kurds. It highlights that the Turkish official position regarding the PYD and YPG is driven by two ideological factors: first, the influence of Kurdish autonomy in Syria on the action of Kurds in Turkey, and second, the barrier that the PYD and YPG have created against the Islamist agenda of Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Syria.

Rethinking Bosnia and Herzegovina’s post-coloniality

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danijela Majstorović ◽  
Zoran Vučkovac
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
State Building ◽  
International Community ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Media Discourses

This paper investigates politico-media discourses of the international community revolving for the last few decades around the process of Europeanization in Bosnia and Herzegovina from its Dayton inception until 2015. We first explain the contours of the BiH context and then use a critical discourse analysis to assess the data collected between 1997 and 2015 drawn from a variety of textual resources such as mainstream newspapers, online media, and international community websites to explain the main trends of the Europeanization discourse in the country. Grounding our analysis within the postcolonial theory and post-communist studies, we critically examine the post-1996 peace and state building as well as Europeanization processes in BiH with respect to signs of postcolonial condition including perpetual transition and a state of exception.

scholarly journals Armenian Digital Communications in Karabakh War of 2020: Critical Discourse Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1 (33)) ◽  
pp. 32-48
Author(s):  
Anahit Hakobyan
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Digital Communications ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Media And Communication

The role of media and communication in modern military conflicts is becoming more and more relevant. In this regard, the Karabakh war of 2020 was significant։ it was the first large-scale war in the modern history of Armenia, which took place under the conditions and with the use of digital communications. The article provides a critical discourse analysis of war framing in digital communications. The analysis revealed the techniques and mechanisms of framing, the underlying stereotypes, myths and ideologies, as well as the role of social networks in digital communications that accompanied military operations.

scholarly journals Security and Religion: The Discursive Self-legitimation of the Chechen Authorities

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Marat Iliyasov
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Television Channel ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
Television Programme

Abstract This article analyses the official discourse of the Chechen authorities and posits that it reflects the government’s efforts as self-legitimation. This investigation seeks to identify the mechanisms exploited by the Chechen regime to boost self-legitimacy by examining the ‘News’ programme on the Chechen state television channel ‘Grozny’, which, in the authoritarian setting of Chechnya, became the government’s mouthpiece and a propagator of official discourse. To provide for the context and to boost findings, the study is complemented by a discursive analysis of one more historical-political television programme and a political advertisement that was broadcast by the same channel during the period in which the fieldwork took place. The collected data is processed using Critical Discourse Analysis.

Theoretical Analysis of The Significance of Critical Discourse Analysis in Language Use

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukhalad Malik Yousif ◽  
Aras Abdulkarim Amin
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
Important Approach

The current study aims at illustrating an important approach in the analysis of language use in various communicative events, situations and contexts. This approach is what recently known as critical discourse analysis. This kind of analysis is very important as far the linguistic levels that it utilizes are concerned in addition to the fact that critical discourse analysis can be applied on various situations, contexts and communicative events so as to analyse in detail both the structure and the message or meaning that a specific piece of language intends to convey. The study reveals that critical discourse analysis can be considered as an independent approach to the study of language and is mainly addressed to various social situations. Critical discourse analysis clarifies the occurrence of social relations, supremacy, individuality and other sorts of social bonds through spoken or written texts by analysing their constructions and structures linguistically and non linguistically.

scholarly journals Pseudo Neutrality in Intra-State Conflict: Myanmar’s Official Discourse on Rakhine

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 25-52
Author(s):  
Kenneth Houston
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
External Pressure ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Salvation Army ◽  
Security Forces ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Official Discourse ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cultural Pressures

Although the most recent manifestation of conflict in Rakhine can be traced to the coordinated attack on Myanmar security forces in August 2017 by Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (hereafter ARSA), it goes without saying that the problem has a longer history. For this paper a corpus of official Myanmar government sources was examined qualitatively using the critical discourse analysis (CDA) method. Within the official pronouncements of the Myanmar state since August 2017 we can discern the discursive strategies deployed to balance the competing pressures of national and international legitimation of the Myanmar government. In name and through action, Myanmar has marginalized the Rohingyas. However, beyond this obvious imperative additional and more subtle strategies have been deployed in Myanmar’s official discourse, which attempts to position the Myanmar state as a neutral arbiter in a subnational dispute and one that seeks to distance itself from previous political arrangements. The paper focuses on these other discursive strategies which evince conformity to undercurrents of socio-cultural pressures from grassroots extremist Buddhist actors within Myanmar. Ultimately, there is no escaping Official Myanmar’s responsibility for the status and plight of the Rohingya. The prognosis for external pressure to exert any normative influence on Myanmar will be limited. The official discourse betrays the ongoing attempts by the new government to balance these competing pressures at the expense of genuine neutrality and its responsibilities.

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