scholarly journals Exploring the Nature of Representation of Islam and Muslims in the Australian Press

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824401989369
Author(s):  
Muhammad Junaid Ghauri ◽  
Salma Umber
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
General Public ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
National Agenda ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Press

National press is considered as integral institution in articulation, propagation, and dissemination of the national agenda. The press helps general public in interpreting news stories. This article is set to explore the nature of representation of Islam and Muslims in the editorials of the Australian newspapers during January 01, 2016, to March 31, 2017. This study has employed van Dijk’s ideological square and lexicalization approaches within the critical discourse analysis paradigm to examine editorials from two leading Australian newspapers. The findings showed that both the newspapers The Age and The Australian produced entirely opposite discourses in their editorials regarding Islam and Muslims. The findings have demonstrated that The Age portrayed Islam and Muslims positively and favorably while The Australian constructed Islam and Muslims in a critical and negative way. In the editorial contents of The Age, predominant themes regarding Islam and Muslims were “victimization,” “understanding,” “multiculturalism,” “solidarity,” “cohesion,” and “harmony.” On the contrary, predominant discourse in the editorial contents of The Australian were “securitization,” “Othering,” “violence,” “categorization,” and “stereotyping.”

Constructing undesirables: A critical discourse analysis of othering of Fulani nomads in the Ghanaian news media

2021 ◽  
pp. 175048132098209
Author(s):  
Mark Nartey ◽  
Hans J Ladegaard
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analysis Framework ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Content Organization

The activities of Fulani nomads in Ghana have gained considerable media attention and engendered continuing public debate. In this paper, we analyze the prejudiced portrayals of the nomads in the Ghanaian news media, and how these contribute to an exclusionist and a discriminatory discourse that puts the nomads at the margins of Ghanaian society. The study employs a critical discourse analysis framework and draws on a dataset of 160 articles, including news stories, editorials and op-ed pieces. The analysis reveals that the nomads are discursively constructed as undesirables through an othering process that centers on three discourses: a discourse of dangerousness/criminalization, a discourse of alienization, and a discourse of stigmatization. This anti-nomad/Fulani rhetoric is evident in the choice of sensational headlines, alarmist news content, organization of arguments, and use of quotations. The paper concludes with a call for more balanced and critical news reporting on the nomads, especially since issues surrounding them border on national cohesion and security.

The People or the Police: Who to Blame? A Study Investigating Linguistic and Textual Devices Journalists Use in Framing News Stories

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 2245
Author(s):  
Hamza Ethelb
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The People ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Al Arabiya ◽  
News Event

One news event may be represented differently by different news organizations. Research in news representation remains sparse in Arabic. This article investigates some of the linguistic and textual devices used in journalistic texts. It looks at the way these devices are used to influence public opinion. This gives rise to significance of conducting this research. This study uses these devices within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). For the purpose of this study, four news articles produced by Aljazeera and Al-Arabiya were examined under CDA in order to show how journalists structure their news stories to imply an ideological stance. The analysis showed that Aljazeera and Al-Arabiya represented the people and the police differently, each according to their ideological and political leanings. This resulted in the public having different opinions of the event.

scholarly journals ‘Sectarianism’ and Scottish football: Critical reflections on dominant discourse and press commentary

2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 418-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
The Press ◽  
Core Identity ◽  
Critical Reflections

This article provides a critical discourse analysis of Scottish newspaper reports relating to football and ‘sectarianism’ in Scotland. It claims that there is a powerful and longstanding ideological ‘framing’ of sectarianism in sections of the Scottish press that is latently power-laden. This discourse attempts to construct and reaffirm a unified non-sectarian core identity that ‘real’ and ‘authentic’ Scots (should) share in opposition to a set of sectarian ‘others’. The various connotations attached to sectarian and sectarianism, together with their use in particular ways that reflect an ideological hegemony, are illustrated. Much of the press treatment of sectarianism is shown to lack sensitivity to the historical, hierarchical and relational aspects of religious, political and ethnic identities in Scotland.

scholarly journals ANALYSING A RIGHT-WING TEXT THROUGH HALLIDAYS TRANSTIVITY SYSTEM AND CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1018-1027
Author(s):  
Dr. ELHAM Ghobain
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Maximum Effect ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Far Right ◽  
The Press ◽  
Apparent Violation

In this paper, I attempt to present an example of following Hallidays grammatical system in analysing a text that can bear racial references. Doing so, the text analysis can be viewed from a critical discourse analysis perspective. The text chosen, titled Europe Must Close Its Borders or be Swamped by Third World, published in 2009, exhibits a typical example of the political rhetoric used by far-right political parties represented by one of its leaders in Britain, Nick Griffin. My assumption is that every word, every verb, and every phrase used is carefully chosen to convey the intended agendas of the party to its prospect voters in a clever way, which achieves its maximum effect with little or no apparent violation to the press guidelines. I also believe that such a stirring text, as far as the paper is concerned, would benefit from the use of various types of verbs and phrases that should suffice the requirement of the analysis. The paper may be of good use to students interested in studying this system of analysis as it deeply goes into the details of the used text.

Corona delta varian news text: critical discourse analysis on TV talkshows’ head line

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahlan Tampubolon ◽  
Kammer Sipayung ◽  
Fenty Debora Napitupulu ◽  
Usman Sidabutar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Public Behavior ◽  
Headline News ◽  
Information Providers ◽  
Head Line

Objectives: This study is about the realization of critical discourse analysis on TV talkshows’ headlines about corona delta variant. Methods: The data was gathered by collecting 31 headline news stories about Corona from three TV channels: Metro TV, TV One, and Kompas TV. Result:  The result showed that at the level of micro, the linguistic features used by the three TV channels were dominated by expressing declarative ideas. On the level of macro, the three TV channels used facts as information and statements as information. On the level of meso, it was discovered that the three TV channels used their roles as public behavior influencers, information providers, policy evaluators, and socialization agencies. The conclusion: the ideology of the TV channel influences the way of delivering news CDA, coronavirus delta variant news, TV talk shows.

scholarly journals Ideología, poder y manipulación: la cultura mapuche y los instrumentos discursivos de la prensa chilena

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 1357
Author(s):  
Julio Renato Sáez Gallardo
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Mental Models ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Aspect ◽  
Visual Semiotics ◽  
The Press

El objetivo central de esta investigación es entender cómo se construye en los diarios de mayor lectura en Chile la representación social de la cultura mapuche. Para ello, estudiaremos el aspecto cognitivo de la dimensión discursiva asociado al control que ejerce la prensa sobre las estructuras de la noticia y que incide fuertemente en la formación de modelos mentales en sus lectores sobre la alteridad étnica. La metodología que utilizaremos proviene del Análisis Crítico del Discurso (ACD) y su vinculación con la teoría del discurso periodístico; la Semiótica Visual de Kress y Van Leeuwen (1996) y la Semiótica greimasiana.The main goal of this research is to understand how the most read newspapers in Chile have established a social representation of the Mapuche culture. For this, the studied topic will be the cognitive aspect of the discursive dimension associated with the exercised control —by the press— over the structures of the news that strongly influences the formation of mental models in its readers about ethnic alterity. The methodology used will be the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and its link with the theory of journalistic discourse; the Visual Semiotics of Kress and Van Leeuwen (1996) and the Greimasian Semiotics.

scholarly journals AN EXPLORATION OF THE REPRESENTATION OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN A SAMPLE FROM THE SPANISH PRESS

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-97
Author(s):  
María Martínez Lirola
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Digital Version ◽  
Partial Representation ◽  
The Press ◽  
Visual Characteristics ◽  
Spanish Press ◽  
Migratory Movements

The number of women immigrating to Spain in search of a better life has increased in recent years. However, very few news items pay attention to the reasons why they emigrate. A corpus of 30 pieces of news related to immigrant women was collected from February 2012 to April 2013 from the digital version of the main Spanish newspapers El País, El Mundo and ABC. The main hypotheses in this research are: Immigrant women are not very visible in the Spanish press; they are mainly represented as vulnerable and as victims; and they are normally connected to social problems. To confirm or to disprove said hypotheses, this article employs critical discourse analysis, including visual grammar, to analyse the main topics of the pieces of news dealing with immigrant women, and the main linguistic and visual characteristics used to describe them. It transpires that immigrant women are portrayed in the Spanish press as dependent, passive and confined to their homes. Moreover, the majority of the articles on immigrant women associated them with prostitution. The partial representation of immigrant women observed in the corpus of examples does not favour the development of a society established on principles of democracy and equality. In this sense, it is necessary to rethink the depiction of immigrant women in the press, in order to question their role in modern-day migratory movements.

Understanding the Shahbag and Hefajat Movements in Bangladesh: A Critical Discourse Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 002190962110386
Author(s):  
Saimum Parvez
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Press ◽  
Newspaper Articles

This study examines the role of the press in shaping national identities in contemporary Bangladesh. It employs the critical discourse analysis method to analyze newspapers’ content and closely examines the news texts of three high-profile events in 2013: the Shahbag movement, the murder of blogger Rajib, and the Hefajat movement. Based on the critical discourse analysis of newspaper articles related to these three events, this study observes a discursive construction of two binary and intolerant identities in the coverage. This analysis demonstrates how the discourse of each newspaper creates meanings related to national identities and ideologies that serve to justify the interests of ‘us’ and to criticize ‘them’.

Totalitarian Newspeak

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 70-83
Author(s):  
Petar Vodenicharov
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
Intensive Production ◽  
The Press ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
Low Education

Using the method of the critical discourse analysis and the insights of George Orwell „1984“ the author aims at analysing the propaganda mechanisms (production distribution and perception) of the totalitarian press in the 1950-s. The socio-political context of the press and the new relations between orality and literacy because of the domination of the new elite (mainly of village origin and with low education) have been outlined. The text analysis discovers the duality of the themes, the centralized and passive sources of the texts, new genres and the new imagery explained by some psychoanalytical concepts. The structure of the newspeak changed considerably with logoside and intensive production of neologisms, especially abbreviations, abundance of euphemisms and doublethinks which aim at closing the thought in vicious circles.

Recontextualisation of Beijing’s voice: A critical discourse analysis of hegemony and resistance in Hong Kong political discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 540-561
Author(s):  
Toby Wing-Chun Ng
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Alternative Representation ◽  
Basic Law ◽  
Political Events ◽  
The Press

This study adopts critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine the recontextualisation of Beijing’s voice in Hong Kong’s governance. Using Beijing’s interpretation of Article 104 of the Basic Law in 2016, which triggered a by-election in 2018, as the case, this article analyses two texts produced by two social actors: the press conference in response to Beijing’s interpretation by the Hong Kong government and an election flyer by a pro-democracy candidate, complemented by a corpus analysis of pro-Beijing newspapers reporting the incident. The findings show that the local government drew upon Beijing’s voice to help create a dominant representation of the Beijing–Hong Kong relations and thus hegemonised Hong Kong political discourse which influenced other social domains, such as newspapers and elections. The pro-democracy camp, as the resistance to the hegemony, drew upon Beijing’s voice to create an alternative representation to secure votes during the by-election. This article then proposes a model which could comprehend Beijing’s role in Hong Kong’s political events, of creating and perpetuating the tension between the hegemony and resistance in Hong Kong.

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