A Critical Discourse Analysis on Media Excerpts

Abstract

As narrative discourses and discursive thematic frame- <br />works on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into <br />how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct dif- <br />ferent presentations of social actors, social events as well as social re- <br />lations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more seri- <br />ous considerations. To this end, the present study was an attempt to <br />have a critical discourse analysis on two papers published on “attack <br />to Ghaza". Through a deep media discourse analysis, it was found that <br />there is a pattern of who is speaking and in what way in mass media the <br />meaning is constructed by journalistic conventions as well as by social <br />norms, and by rules that in part are set by a political regime. It was re- <br />vealed that conventions play a strong role as we apply a representation <br />analysis method