scholarly journals The Game Changer’: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Headlines about CPEC

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Rehana Yasmin Anjum ◽  
Faiza Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
Biased Language ◽  
News Headlines ◽  
Game Changer

CPEC has become the centre of attention for the whole world as it has been entitled as “a game changer”, since Chine has been connected to the European and Gulf states through CPEC via Silk Road. Gawadar has become an important trade centre of the future. Due to these key reasons, this issue is being manipulated and portrayed in different colours at national and international forums. Keeping the present scenario in view, the present study has beeninvested to explore the hidden strategies of different local news papers that how this phenomenon is being portrayed and manipulated. It is an analytical research of media discourse that primarily studies how social power and inequality is manipulated and reproduced through text and talk in both social and political contexts.CDA of journalistic discourse tries to unveil the biased language to make the readers aware of manipulative strategies used in both printed and online news papers.The present study aims at making a comparative study of three daily English newspapers, The “Dawn News”, “The Express Tribune” and “The Business Recorder” about the news headlines on CPEC (China-Pakistan Economic Corridor) to show the negotiation on the important issues like CPEC via news headlines. Through investing the Critical Discourse Analysis as method,the researchershavetried to investigate the manipulations invested by the editors to represent their own ideologies on the same issue. To meet the same goalthreeheadlines were collected from all these three news papers dealing with the same phenomenon. All those headlines were analysed on the modal of Van Dijk (2000) in terms of discursive strategies through discursive micro and macro strategies presented by Van Dijk. The nature of the study is qualitative. The results show a controversial approach towards the acceptance of this mega project and apprehensions of the stake holders and political figures.

scholarly journals CDA Linguistic Imperialism and CPEC: A Hegemonic View of the Emergence of a New Lingua Franca in the Region

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rehana Yasmin Anjum ◽  
Faiza Manzoor
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Linguistic Imperialism ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
The Common ◽  
Mixed Approach ◽  
Biased Language

CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor), a hot cake for the analysts, business Tycons, politicians, traders and above all the common person. CPEC has become the centre of attention for the whole world as it has been entitled as “a game changer”, since Chine is getting access to a big economy of the European and Gulf states through.  Gawader has become a Global eye catcher. This issue is being manipulated and portrayed in different colours on the national and international forums. The present study has been invested to explore its effect on the linguistic map of the world generally and Pakistan particularly. The present explores the prospects of CPE as creating new linguistic changes and its hegemonic acceptance. It is an analytical research of media discourse to expose the manipulation of social power and inequality on national, regional and global levels being reflected through text and talk in both social and political contexts. CDA has been used as a methodology to unveil the biased language and to make the readers aware of manipulations strategies. The present study aims at make a critical discourse analysis of BBC (British Broadcast Company) Kuala Lumpur‘s report published on 22nd February 2012 to investigate the manipulative strategy of the editor that how CPEC can be involved in a linguistic debate on global level and how it can disturb the linguistic imperialism. To meet this purpose a journal with the title of “ Is English or Mandarin the language of the future?” published in BBC Kuala Lumpur has been selected to be analysed on the modal of Van Dijk (2000) in terms of discursive strategies The nature of the study is both quantitative and qualitative. The results are shown through numbers and tables to present clearer results. The results show a mixed approach towards the acceptance of the mega project and apprehensions of the stakeholders.

scholarly journals Critical discourse analysis of BBC and CNN political news’ headlines on the Christchurch Mosque Massacre in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 707-721
Author(s):  
Mohammed Al-Badawi ◽  
Ibrahim Al Najjar
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Passive Voice ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
News Headlines

Abstract This study aims at investigating the language of politics in news headlines regarding the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective to examine how power and ideology reside in texts. The data of this study consist of 39 headlines extracted from the BBC and CNN online news agencies. The data were analyzed utilizing the socio-cultural approach of Fairclough (2013). Representative examples were discussed in terms of the three stages of Fairclough’s approach. The results of the study revealed that the reporters tended to use the passive voice structure in headlines that describe the attacker in conformance with the New Zealand policy, which states that his identity should not be revealed. However, they used the active voice structure while referring to the victims, their families, and the New Zealanders at large in order to emphasize their way of dealing with the attack. In addition, the role of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern in her legal capacity was highlighted by shedding light on her pronouncements to fight against terrorism. It was also found that the use of the metaphor as a figurative device entails that terrorism is a rare phenomenon in New Zealand.

scholarly journals A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE USE ON FACEBOOK: A STUDY OF PREMIUM TIMES NEWS HEADLINES

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Bossan ◽  
Gideon Abioye Oyedeji
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The Social ◽  
News Headlines

Attaining national unity and cohesion is a function of deliberate strategic plans of different facets of human endeavour in a nation. The language front has important role to play in fostering national unity and cohesion in any country. The Nigeria and Africa situation is not an exception. The chaos and rivalry that have become an intrinsic experience for us in Nigeria and in fact, Africa is partly a function of careless and unchecked language use in the social media. This paper, therefore, explores the use and misuse of language on social media. The study examines the comments of Facebook users to online news headlines posted on Premium Times Facebook handle. A corpus of a week screenshot samples of these comments are collected out of which nine (9) were purposively selected for the analysis. These nine (9) data are grouped into five (5) texts. The selected data were analysed using Dell Hymes’ Ethnography of Speaking complemented by Theo van Leeuwen’s Identities and Subjectivity Model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The paper uses the SPEAKING acronym as the theoretical insight and discussion was based on the postulations of the CDA model adopted. The study found that the responses from readers are mostly tilting towards their individual affiliations. Also, instances of arguments and rebuttals by readers reflect a situation where the polarity tilts in bidirectional positive in-group - “us” and negative out-group – “them” among the different affiliations the users represent. The study further found that copious use of vulgar expressions pervades the comments of readers. This study therefore concludes that such use of language cannot help Nigeria and Africa in its quest for unity. The study recommends that media literacy be taught in schools in order to entrench civility in the discussions of people on social media.

scholarly journals ZOHRI BECOMES WORLD CHAMPION RUN 100 U-20 IN FINLAND, RED-WHITE FLAG CONTROVERSY IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasmah Nursira ◽  
Rafi'ah Nur
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Responsibility Of Government ◽  
World Champion ◽  
Further Development

The present critical discourse analysis investigated opinion about the red-white flag controversy when Zohri became world Champion run 100 U-20 in Finlad of the social media, such as: YouTube, Facebook as well as Online News. Theoretical framework of this study is imbedden within Van Dijk’s sociocognitive approach to understanding media influence in reproduction of prejudice and stereotypes. The analysis revels that red-white flag controversy is evaluated negatively. In addition, the number of evaluations with implied negative meanings increased over the opinion some famous people. By focusing on the responsibility of government didn't care athletics, this study contributes to further development of the theories about relationship athletic and social power.

scholarly journals Legalization of Arak Bali in Online News Headlines: Critical Discourse Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Nadya Inda Syartanti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Belief System ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Headline News ◽  
News Headlines

In 2020, arak bali, traditional liquor from Bali, was legalized by the Governor of Bali, I Wayan Koster. This research aimed to reveal the construction of news headlines about the legalization of arak Bali. Data were sourced from various online news media (detiknews.com, kompas.com, tribunnews.com), collected by selecting news headlines with the keywords arak Bali and pelegalan, and analyzed using Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis. The results showed that the six news headlines used linguistic tools such as selected vocabulary that focused on the word legal, grammatical units that were dominated by clauses, syntactic functions dominated by the discourse’s topicalization, and a form of news emphasizing the statement of the legalization of arak bali by Koster. The mindset of the Balinese towards arak bali cannot be separated from their predominant belief system, Hinduism. Meanwhile, Koster’s commitment to arak bali shows his ideology, as an indigenous Balinese individual, of preserving Balinese culture and traditions. Finally, the headlines on the legalization of arak bali occurred at the situational level, with Balinese people welcoming the legalization of arak bali, resulting in Koster planning to hold an arak bali festival as a means of promoting and preserving Balinese cultureThis research aimed to reveal the construction of the news headlines about the legalization of arak bali by the Governor of Bali, I Wayan Koster. The data source was taken from various online news media such as detiknews.com, kompas.com, and tribunnews.com. Data were collected by selecting news headlines with the keywords arak bali and pelegalan, and analyzed using the Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis. The results showed that the six news headlines used linguistic tools such as selected vocabulary that was focused on word of legal, grammatical units which were dominated by clauses, syntactic functions which dominated by discourse’s topicalization, and news form which emphasized on the statement of the legalization of arak bali by I Wayan Koster. Then, the Balinese people's mindset towards arak bali cannot be separated from Hinduism as Balinese people’s belief. Meanwhile, Koster's commitment to arak bali shows his ideology as the indigenous Balinese individual to preserve Balinese culture and traditions. Finally, the headline news about the legalization of arak bali have occurred at the situational level which Balinese people is welcoming the legalization of arak bali, so Koster has planned to hold  arak bali festival as a form of promotion and preservation of Balinese culture.

scholarly journals DISKURSUS CYBERBULLYING FLORENCE SIHOMBING (Analisis Wacana Kritis Teun A. Van Dijk Tentang Florence Sihombing di Dunia Maya)

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
Syntia Balina Dewi ◽  
Syarif Maulana
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Online News ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Internet ◽  
News Headlines ◽  
Internet And Social Media

Cyberbullying is closely related to technology and social media. Dissemination of information via the Internet and social media is much faster than the oral way. Cyberbullying is often done through social media and headlines news portals, which make the reader interested in reading, usually used excessive sentences that can make someone cornered. This research study is entitled �Discourse Cyberbullying of Florence Sihombing (Critical Discourse Analysis Teun A. van Dijk about Florence Sihombing in Cyberspace)�. The purpose of this study was to determine the discourse on cyberbullying in the case of Florence Sihombing based on critical discourse analysis Teun A. Van Dijk. The methodology used in this research is the analysis of discourse, in which the author collects screenshots of cyberbullyer tweets on Twitter and headlines on online news portals that are associated with the case of Florence Sihombing, then associated with critical discourse analysis van Dijk. The results of this study showed the cyberbullying that happened to Florence Sihombing through the online news headlines and cyberbullyer�s tweets on Twitter can be explained through nine elements contained in the critical discourse analysis of van Dijk.Keywords : cyberbullying, social media, news headline, Twitter�s tweets, critical discourse Teun A. Van Dijk

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis on Celebrity Case in Online News Headlines

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Nadya Inda Syartanti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
News Headlines

This study aims to reveal the construction of the news about the immoral video case that happened to Indonesia’s celebrity (GA) in various online news media through Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis approach. Data sources are taken from various online news media, namely detik.com, kompas.com, liputan6.com, and tribunnews.com in the range of publications from November 2020 to January 2021 with the research subject in the form of news headlines related to GA’s immoral video case. With three dimensions of discourse from Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis, the data analysis was carried out by the three stages: the descriptive analysis stage, the interpretation analysis stage, and the explanation analysis stage. The results found that through the microstructural dimension, the eight news headlines used language tools by 1) choosing vocabulary that was focused on the various phrase of video X, and 2) grammatical units which were dominated by clauses, 3) syntactic functions which were dominated by information as topicalization of discourse, and 4) a form of news that emphasizes the affirmation or clarification of GA’s immoral video case. Then, through the mesostructure dimension, the four online mass media have different characteristics and characters in their delivery of news, especially news about the GA’s immoral video case, but are still presented accurately and objectively so that the news content can be conveyed to readers. Finally, through the macrostructural dimension, with the reporting of immoral video cases, GA received a negative image in the eyes of the Indonesian people, because she was considered to be contrary to eastern culture. This negative image is formed because of the news using vulgar, tendentious, and transparent language to reflect press freedom that must be upheld, even though in composing news, sometimes using sarcastic language and making comparisons in it to attract readers' interest

scholarly journals Julkinen kaivoskeskustelu diskursiivisena välienselvittelynä

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veera Kangaspunta
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Online News ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Online Newspapers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Unique Part

The aim of this article is to approach one specific environmental topic and the public debate around this topic from a user-oriented perspective – through online news comments. The article analyses online news and comments sections from three Finnish online newspapers concerning the mining accident of Talvivaara company in November 2012. Discourse and discursive legitimation strategies are used as analytical tools with the focus of critical discourse analysis. The study aims to solve what kind of discourses the public debate contains and how these discourses are connected to certain legitimation strategies. In addition, the article also continues the conceptual deliberation about the concept of the public as a group of people participating in public discussion. The study shows that Talvivaara news and news comments consist four main strategies, authorization, rationalization, moral evaluations and mythopoiesis, used for legitimation, relegitimation and delegitimation. However, the parties differ in the way they utilize these strategies and different discourses. Consequently, online news commenting appears as a unique part of the public debate about the topic, rather than remaining marginal flaming. The users tend to absorb the role of the public as a part of the public showdown about the shared issue.

scholarly journals Different Reporting Styles of Similar News: Comparative Study of Two Urdu Newspapers Headlines

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kausar Rahmati Khan, Dr. Masroor Khanam
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Know How ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
News Headlines

This research explains the reporting style of two newspapers of similar news items. It is related to the headlines styles of reporting in print media. Print media plays very strong role in present era, it’s very important to know how media reveal same news in different point of views. This research paper investigates the news headlines through critical discourse analysis, of 2 daily Urdu newspapers correspondingly from First April to 7th April 2020. In this research paper COVID19 (Corona virus) news headlines were examine in two Urdu Newspapers Daily Jang newspaper and daily Express Newspaper. Newspapers of one week were examined for this research. The Daily Jang based in Karachi. Since 1939 is the oldest newspaper of Pakistan and continuously in publication. The Daily Jang newspaper is published by the Jang Group of Newspapers. The Daily Express is one of Pakistan's most broadly circulated Urdu Newspapers. Through Critical Discourse Analysis it was analyzed that the headlines in both the newspapers have different style of text, meaning and ideology because Jang and Express Newspapers have much difference in polices and in ideology.

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