scholarly journals Discursive Chain and Movement in Crisis-Driven Nigerian Political Discourse: Corpus Evidence from Herdsmen Newspaper Headlines

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Mayowa Akinlotan ◽  
Ayo Ayodele
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Central Tenet ◽  
National Discourses ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Almost All ◽  
News Headlines

A central tenet of critical discourse analysis spells that language in discourse meant for mass consumption is often permeated with a reproduction and/or a resistance of certain ideologies, assumptions, and knowledge characteristic of different social groups making up the society. One of such best scenarios is news headlines narrating crisis- driven national discourse in Nigeria, where almost all national discourses are driven by certain inherent ideologies and political power. In this paper, we propose a discourse chain principle uncovering the underlying socio-psychological idiosyncrasies of the par- ticipants (inclusive of agents and recipients) and processes in most national discourses in Nigeria. Combining concepts in corpus methods with critical discourse analysis, the paper shows a basic approach to operationalising ideologies in notational form. Apply- ing corpus analytic method to 761 herdsmen news headlines extracted from Nigerian newspapers, the present paper nicely illustrates the extent to which these news headlines move the discourse-at-hand (i.e. herdsmen crisis) to discourse-around. Such movement is performed by reproducing institutionalised ideological patterns revolving around identity politics (ethnicity), religion, question of nationhood, corruption, citizenry distrust, and political power imbalance. The paper argues that this discursive movement is often driven by a chain of discourse that defines the existence of the nationhood.

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.

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 Bahasa dan Ekspresi Politik (Studi Critical Discourse Analysis terhadap Akun Instagram Satir @Nurhadi_Aldo)

ARISTO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Nunik Hariyanti ◽  
Senja Yustitia
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
New Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
Three Stages

Reforms bring consequences of freedom in political, contending, and media freedom. In the freedom of media, the presence of new media is dynamic in the process of delivering messages and opinions, especially in the realm of democracy. Black issues, polarisation supporters until identity politics also coloring the Indonesian elections in Indonesia in 2019, until finally, the figure @nurhadi_aldo emerged as the presidential candidate version of the Cyber Society. This research discusses text analysis in a discourse, according to Fairclough, the presence of text is a representation of the understanding of the creator, and this is open to interpretation. The purpose of this study describes the use of sexuality and satire language as a form of political expression in Indonesia, especially those that appear on the Nurhadi - Aldo Instagram account (@nurhadi_aldo). There are three stages to analyzing discourse based on Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis theory, namely representation, relation, and identity. The research results show that the language of sexuality and satire used by @nurhadi_aldo is a form of honesty expression to criticize the loss of the essence of an election contestation in Indonesia. Then found bizarre disclosure techniques, hyperbola, contrast, and unexpected techniques of logic use as an attempt to criticize the political phenomenon with @nurhadi_aldo. 

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 Bahasa dan Ekspresi Politik (Studi Critical Discourse Analysis terhadap Akun Instagram Satir @Nurhadi_Aldo)

ARISTO ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Nunik Hariyanti ◽  
Senja Yustitia
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
New Media ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
Three Stages

Reforms bring consequences of freedom in political, contending, and media freedom. In the freedom of media, the presence of new media is dynamic in the process of delivering messages and opinions, especially in the realm of democracy. Black issues, polarisation supporters until identity politics also coloring the Indonesian elections in Indonesia in 2019, until finally, the figure @nurhadi_aldo emerged as the presidential candidate version of the Cyber Society. This research discusses text analysis in a discourse, according to Fairclough, the presence of text is a representation of the understanding of the creator, and this is open to interpretation. The purpose of this study describes the use of sexuality and satire language as a form of political expression in Indonesia, especially those that appear on the Nurhadi - Aldo Instagram account (@nurhadi_aldo). There are three stages to analyzing discourse based on Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis theory, namely representation, relation, and identity. The research results show that the language of sexuality and satire used by @nurhadi_aldo is a form of honesty expression to criticize the loss of the essence of an election contestation in Indonesia. Then found bizarre disclosure techniques, hyperbola, contrast, and unexpected techniques of logic use as an attempt to criticize the political phenomenon with @nurhadi_aldo.

scholarly journals Critical Discourse Analysis of Technology-Based Rural Government System in Bengkalis Riau

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rijalul Fikri ◽  
Muhammad Faisal Amrillah ◽  
Budi Mulianto
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Rural Government ◽  
Governing System ◽  
The Government ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Rural Program

The Government of Indonesia has formed a team to accelerate the implementation of the Electronic-Based Government System from the national government to the rural government. The main target is the empowerment of the rural government through a technology-based rural government system. By making an application for the rural government system, like ePlanning, eBudgeting, eProcurement, eAudit, etc. One of the areas that are intensely doing this, is the Bengkalis Regency Government, through the implementation of the Broadband Rural program, almost all rurals in Bengkalis Regency already have websites. The interesting question is does the rural have to understand technology? Does the rural have to implement a technology-based government system? Does the state forget that the rural and they community have a Self Governing System?. This will be answered by using discourse analysis. Because discourse believes that power relations in society influence and shape ways, how knowledge is created. The discourse in this paper is the implementation of a Technology-Based Government System, which is believed to be a tool that forms power relations in society through processes of defining, isolating, justifying. This paper then tries to express the state power represented in its efforts to implement a technology-based Rural government system.

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 Exploring Ideological Construction through COVID-19 Related Headlines in Selected Pakistani Newspapers

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-714
Author(s):  
Saima Rasheed Tareen ◽  
Durr-e- Nayab ◽  
Sibgha Dilawer
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
English Language ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
News Headlines ◽  
Ideological Construction

The present study explores ideological construction related to corona pandemic with the application of critical discourse analysis and socio-cognitive approach to depict the domination of political authorities through COVID-19 related headlines in selected Pakistani newspapers. This study investigates news discourse critically to observe how this particular type of discourse unveils implicit beliefs, achieve the power and practice hegemony in the society. The researchers have followed the qualitative approach and the news headlines of two English-language Pakistani newspapers; ‘Dawn’ and ‘The News’ have collected through purposive sampling technique. Critical Discourse Analysis (1998) and Triangular Socio-Cognitive approach of Van Dijk(2009) are applied to this study. The findings revealed that ideological construction through COVID-19 related headlines (de)emphasize our/their performance over corona crisis. Use of active constructions and instances with absence of nominalization imply that speakers of news headlines try to represent themselves the sovereign and supreme to manipulate the readers’ ideology and actions over corona pandemic as the biological issue of corona has been made politicized by the selected world leaders. Moreover, Ideology regarding COVID-19 is propagated by authorities to practice societal oppression and power abuse to manipulate the beliefs of the innocent masses. Upcoming researchers can use the data through COVID-19 related headlines in different time frame or can conduct the research as an extension of the present study. Furthermore, comparative study of newspapers and electronic media discourse through COVID-19 related headlines, speeches and interviews can be under taken for the application of the present framework in future.

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