The Discourse of Turkish Press on 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections and the Inauguration of Donald Trump

2019 ◽  
pp. 161-187
Author(s):  
Rengim Sine Nazli ◽  
Kemal Avci
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The U.S

Academic studies that form the basis of critical paradigm are collected around the theme of “ideological mediation of texts in the media.” These studies focus on the news reports as the most influential products of the media. The aforementioned studies emphasize that objectivity, which is the leading notion in traditional journalism, is shaped in favor of the involved parties, and therefore examine the discourse of the news with the aim of revealing these aspects by utilizing a number of methods. This study analyzed how the week following the U.S. Presidential election held on November 8, 2016 and won by Donald Trump; and the week after Trump's inauguration and taking of office after President Barack Obama on January 20, 2017 were portrayed in Turkish newspapers holding different ideological stances. The study utilized van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis Method. The front pages of newspapers with different ideological stances such as Sözcü, Sabah and Hürriyet newspapers were taken as the samples of the study. The study results pointed that newspapers shaped their news in line with their ideological expectations as was the case in Sabah newspaper sample. It was also observed that Trump was reported as the boss of the world, the richest US president, racist, Islamophobic and nationalist in other two newspapers included in the study.

Constructing the myth of protest masculinity in Chinese English language news media

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yating Yu ◽  
Mark Nartey
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Harmony ◽  
Chinese Media ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Media

Although the Chinese media’s construction of unmarried citizens as ‘leftover’ has incited much controversy, little research attention has been given to the ways ‘leftover men’ are represented in discourse. To fill this gap, this study performs a critical discourse analysis of 65 English language news reports in Chinese media to investigate the predominant gendered discourses underlying representations of leftover men and the discursive strategies used to construct their identities. The findings show that the media perpetuate a myth of ‘protest masculinity’ by suggesting that poor, single men may become a threat to social harmony due to the shortage of marriageable women in China. Leftover men are represented as poor men, troublemakers and victims via discursive processes that include referential, predicational and aggregation strategies as well as metaphor. This study sheds light on the issues and concerns of a marginalised group whose predicament has not been given much attention in the literature.

scholarly journals THE REPRESENTATIONS OF TAIWAN'S FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT IN THE MEDIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Yasmine Anabel Pandjaitan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
General Description ◽  
New Era ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The Media ◽  
Linguistic Strategy ◽  
Female Leader ◽  
Female President

As the first female president in Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen’s actions and words are crucial to the advancement of gender equality within the Chinese patriarchal society. Likewise, the media also have a role in shaping gender discourse which may or may not support the president’s attempt at empowering women in politics and other sectors of life. This paper examined the linguistic strategy used by President Tsai to represent herself as a strong female leader through her official statements and how the media represented her in their reports. The data were collected from local news reports and international news portals, and from her speeches as quoted by the media, starting from the year she was elected in 2016 to 2018. Using Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis, it was apparent that President Tsai struggled with her role as a female leader in politics, with critics from persisting patriarchal society and pressure from emerging new values in Taiwan. The media, on the other hand, was divided in making representations for and against Tsai. The conclusion of this research is hoped to give a general description of gender and political dynamics under the new era of Tsai Ing-wen.

scholarly journals The reflections of the ıdeological violence of the media to terror newsMedyanın ideolojik şiddetinin terör haberlerine yansımaları

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Ahmet Ayhan ◽  
Fatma Çakmak
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
English Summary ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Main Stream ◽  
Terror Attack ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Masses

Today media as a forth power, presents the goings-on which is all over the world, by forming around it’s ideology, to crowed of people consumption. Therefore, media shows the events as it wanted and aims to make them think in the same direction. Otherwise, violence and terror is increasingly going on in the postmodern world. Media transfers this negative way to a number of ideologies. So that the masses exposed to ideological violence of media, take shape according to presented content.Accordingly, the aim of the study is to determine how media has a role in connection with spreading, interaction with one another news, discourse and ideology and the ideologic violence of media over Ankara and Paris terror attack news on Turkish and French press. Critical discourse analysis of van Dijk was implemented as a method. While one of the obtained findings is that Cumhuriyet and Libération news constitute news contents which highlights the opposing ideology way and the other one is that Yeni Akit and Le Figaro news use the news discourses on the main stream. At the end of the study, it was determined that media is not objective, presents the same news with different contents and serves to definite ideologies.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. ÖzetMedya bugün tüm dünyada dördüncü güç olarak, olup bitenleri egemen güçlerin ideolojisi etrafında şekillendirerek kitlelerin tüketimine sunmaktadır. Dolayısıyla toplumlara olayları, kendi istediği gibi göstermekte ve onları aynı yönde düşündürmeyi hedeflemektedir. Diğer taraftan, postmodern dünyada şiddet ve terör artarak devam etmektedir. Medya bu olumsuz gidişatı birtakım ideolojilerle aktarmaktadır. Böylece kitleler medyanın ideolojik şiddetine maruz kalmakta, sunulan içeriklere göre şekillenmektedir.Bu doğrultuda çalışmanın amacı; medyanın, ideolojilerin yayılması noktasında nasıl bir role sahip olduğunu, haber, söylem ve ideolojinin birbiriyle etkileşimini ve medyanın ideolojik şiddetini, Türk ve Fransız basınında, Ankara ve Paris terör saldırıları haberleri üzerinden tespit etmektir. Çalışmada yöntem olarak; van Dijk’ın eleştirel söylem analizi uygulanmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular; Cumhuriyet ve Libération gazetelerinin muhalif ideolojiyi öne çıkaran yönde haber içerikleri oluştururken, Yeni Akit ve Le Figaro gazetelerinin ise ana akım yönünde haber söylemleri kullandığıdır. Çalışmanın sonucunda; medyanın tarafsız olmadığı, aynı olayı birbirinden çok farklı içeriklerle sunduğu ve belli ideolojilere hizmet ettiği tespit edilmiştir.

scholarly journals Barack Obama – the new charismatic political actor - a discourse analysis

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-261
Author(s):  
Ada-Maria Țîrlea
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Political Actor ◽  
Political Arena ◽  
American President ◽  
The Media ◽  
American Leader

The American president, Barack Obama, is considered to be one of the most charismatic figures of the 21st century. His speeches are the best asset through which he emphasizes this quality. Although, he hasn’t always been considered to be a successful politician, he made his entrance on the political arena in 2004, when he delivered one of his best speeches. The aim of this paper is to reveal the most important elements of a political discourse that can contribute to creating a good image of a political actor. Using the critical discourse analysis method, we are trying to see if there is a connection between a good, coherent discourse strategy and the charisma of the American leader. The sample will include his 2004 speech, delivered at the Democrats’ Convention, the speech that put him in the eyes of the media as a future American leader

scholarly journals A critical discourse analysis of English electronic news reports on environmental sustainability

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (12.1) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Quyên Nguyễn Thị Hạ ◽  
Khương Lưu Quý
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Study Results ◽  
News Website ◽  
Expressive Modality

This research aims to discover the discourse features of English electronic news reports (EENRs) on environmental sustainability which are lexical, grammatical and textual features in light of critical discourse analysis (CDA) by Fairclough [3]. A combination of mixed research methods was applied with the qualitative method including a descriptive analysis and the support of the quantitative approach. 69 EENRs on the topic concerned were collected from the UN News website. The study results reveal that words and expressions related to the topic of environmental sustainability, formal words, content words and metaphors are typical lexical features of the discourse. The transitivity, passive and active voices, modes of sentences, relational modality, pronouns, expressive modality and cohesion are also recorded as grammatical features of the discourse.

scholarly journals Transitivity Process and Ideological Construction of Donald Trump's Speeches

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-44
Author(s):  
Nova Anggraini ◽  
Murni Fidiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Collaborative Study ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Linguistic Strategies ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Ideological Construction

This research is the collaborative study of Critical Discourse Analysis with the new grammar perspective of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics Theory focusing on Transitivity System. It investigates the pattern of transitivity process that reveals the linguistic strategies as well as its ideological construction of Donald Trump’s speeches in the 45th United States presidential election. The writer mainly utilizes Fairclough’s framework for CDA which consists of three stages of analysis consisting of description, interpretation, and explanation. Under descriptive-qualitative method, this research significantly gives an understanding about how transitivity processes can be used to reveal the ideology. As the result, Donald Trump uses variety language during his speeches. It is because he applies all the types of transitivity process proposed by M.A.K. Halliday which consists of six types: material, mental, relational, behavioral, verbal, and existential. The transitivity processes eventually reveal that Donald Trump attempts to construct democracy view during his speeches.

scholarly journals Donald J. Trump: A Critical Discourse Analysis | Donald J. Trump: un análisis crítico del discurso

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Tomás MENA GARCÍA
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
George Lakoff ◽  
The Media

Donald J. Trump is an “off the spectrum” President who creates controversial headlines of the media around the world. Where does his appeal come from? What is new about him? This paper tries to answer these questions from a Critical Discourse Analysis perspective. The essay is divided into three chapters. The first one gives a general overview of Trump’s discourse styles. The second one deals with the family model developed by George Lakoff in terms of metaphors and more specifically with the representation of the strict father pattern in Trump’s discourse. The third and final chapter is dedicated to the portrayal of “the other” in Trump. Strategies to depict “otherness” are analysed from an ideological discourse viewpoint. Racism, immigration and Trump’s depiction of “the establishment” are not neglected._____________________________Donal J. Trump resulta ser un Presidente fuera de lo común que genera polémicos titulares en todo el mundo. ¿Por qué provoca tanta atracción y polémica? ¿Qué novedades aporta? Este estudio pretende responder a estas cuestiones desde una perspectiva del análisis crítico del discurso. El ensayo está dividido en tres capítulos. En el primero se exponen los aspectos más característicos de su estilo discursivo. El segundo se dedica a estudiar la influencia de los modelos de familia en Trump analizados por el lingüista cognitivo George Lakoff, centrándose en los siguientes tipos: el Padre estricto y el Progenitor nutriente.  El tercero y último capítulo se consagra a estudiar el modo en que “el otro” es representado por Trump. Se aborda en este trabajo el tratamiento de temas como el racismo, la inmigración o su visión de “la clase dirigente”. 

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis Fairclough on The Content of Game FF and PUBG in The Media Tiktok

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Bayu Aji Sastra Jendra
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Research Method ◽  
New World ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media

A media that can connect every human being in all corners of the world so that it creates a new world, namely the online or virtual world. From here it is very possible for an exchange of ideology to occur through a discourse carried by an individual or a group which could be through a content channeled through a medium such as Tiktok for example. The purpose of this research is to analyze critical discourse on the contents in Tiktok media related to FF and PUBG games. The research method used is qualitative with a critical paradigm as a foundation in the point of view used. The theory used in this study is Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis with descriptive analysis, interpretation and explanation methods. The result of this research is the discovery of differences in discourse that are raised in each content in Tiktok media, where each content framing is carried out with the characteristics of each individual, so that the meaning of the discourse raised can be known by the general public.

scholarly journals Semiotics: The Connotatives Signified (Myth) on Several News Headlines About Terror Cases Indicating Islamophobia

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Artha Nur Restia Panji
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Connotative Meaning ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
The Media ◽  
Linguistic Aspect ◽  
News Headlines

In the last couple of years the increasing cases of violence and terror appears to be the most common headlines in the media around the world.  Media platforms seem to use the news of violence and terror as their strategy to attract readers, in which some news appears to be provocative. The terms used in the media also tend to be exaggerative, which mostly beyond the actual context of the cases. Moreover, the media platforms appears to be trapped in Islamophobia attitude, as they tend to use the term ‘terror’ identical to cases of crimes perpetrated only by Muslims. The term ‘terror’ is hardly used in cases of crimes involving non-Muslims, instead the news platform will use such more neutral terms as ‘shooting’ and ‘stabbing.’ This article examines the connotative meaning of the different terminologies used to describe similar cases in the media headline. In the perspective to Critical Discourse Analysis theory, a discourse brought up by news headline is not merely word choices as it expresses more than just linguistic aspect. In fact, it shapes the way the readers portrayed the actual cases, while the terms used in the news headline appear to significantly contribute to the development of certain ideology brought by the media platforms.[Dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, meningkatnya kasus kekerasan dan teror menjadi berita utama dan lumrah di media di seluruh dunia. Platform media terlihat menyiarkan berita kekerasan dan teror sebagai strategi mereka untuk menarik khalayak untuk membaca yang mana beberapa berita tersebut cenderung lebih provokatif. Istilah-istilah yang digunakan dalam berita itu juga cenderung berlebihan yang justru berada di luar konteks kasus yang sebenarnya. Selain itu, platform media juga terjebak dalam sikap Islamofobia, dengan cenderung menggunakan istilah ‘teror’ yang identik dengan kasus-kasus kejahatan yang mengarah pada tindakan umat Islam. Istilah ‘teror’ justru jarang digunakan dalam kasus-kasus kejahatan yang melibatkan non-muslim, dan sebaliknya, platform berita itu akan menggunakan istilah yang lebih netral seperti ‘penembakan’ dan ‘penusukan’. Artikel ini mengkaji makna konotatif dari istilah-istilah yang digunakan media platform untuk menyampaikan kasus-kasus tersebut dalam tajuk media. Dalam perspektif teori Analisis Wacana Kritis, sebuah wacana yang diangkat oleh tajuk berita tidak hanya berupa pilihan kata sebab dibalik kata itu terdapat ungkapan yang lebih dari sekedar aspek linguistiknya saja. Bahkan, kata-kata itu turut menbentuk cara pembaca memahami dan menggambarkan kasus-kasus tersebut, padahal istilah-istilah yang digunakan oleh media itu nyatanya memiliki peran penting pada pertumbuhan ideologi tertentu yang dibawa oleh media platform tersebut.]

scholarly journals POSITIVE-SELF AND NEGATIVE OTHER PRESENTATION IN THE 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ANNOUNCEMENT SPEECHES: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zainal Arifin Rinaldo
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Current Issue ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Hillary Rodham Clinton ◽  
The U.S

The aim of this research is to investigate the ideology manifestation of each political party (Republican and Democratic) with respect to the current issue of social, economy, politics, education, and foreign policy of the U.S. through the analysis of positive-self and negative-other presentation in the announcement speeches delivered by the candidates who run for the 2016 U.S. Presidential bid. Besides, this study also aims at investigating how the candidates from each party try to justify themselves and persuade the audience to win their consensus. The four candidates whose speeches being analyzed are Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, and Ben Carson. The research was conducted under the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) proposed by Dijk and Wodak. The result shows that the positive-self and negative-other presentation performed by the candidates through p r e d i c a t i o n a l , r e f e r e n t i a l / n o m i n a t i o n , a r g u m e n t a t i o n , p e r s p e c t i v a t i o n , and i n t e n s i f y i n g s t r a t e g i e s . The presence of positive-self and negative-other presentation indicate that the manifestation of ideology in political speech is possible to be delivered through implicit assumptions and evaluative attributions.

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