A Critical Discourse Analysis of Lexical Choices and Strategies in the News Reports on Iraq

• 영문명: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Lexical Choices and Strategies in the News Reports on Iraq
• 발행기관: 한국사회언어학회
• 저자명: So-A Seo
• 간행물 정보: 『사회언어학』제16권 1호, 159~184쪽, 전체 26쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 언어학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2008.06.30

영문 초록

  This article explores how the conflicting ideological positions of the news media in two different countries are reflected in their perceptions of the postwar situation in Iraq and become encoded in lexical choices and strategies in relation to the cognitive and socio-political dimension of the media. The target data were collected from the on-line news reports posted on the respective web sites of the two networks: the Fox News Channel in the U.S. (foxnews.com) and the English-language version of Al-Jazeera in Qatar (english.aljazeera.net). This study adopts an interdisciplinary theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis for ideological representations in news discourse by integrating labeling strategies in information structure from critical discourse scholars (Tomlin et al. 1997; Fairclough 1992, 1995). In particular, the lexical choices and their cognitive and discursive strategies are qualitatively and quantitatively examined by focusing on the labels on the War against Iraq and postwar Iraq. As a result, this study seeks to verify the idea that the ideological differences between the two news networks result in their own strategically and informationally structured labels on Iraqi situations in each news text, keeping and reproducing the separating concept of Self and Other according to each network"s socio-cultural identity and ideology.

목차

Abstract
Ⅰ. Introduction
Ⅱ. Theoretical Backgrounds of the Study
Ⅲ. Socio-political Background of Iraq and the Data of the Study
Ⅳ. Lexical Choices and Strategies in News Reports on Iraqi Situations
Ⅴ. Conclusion
References

키워드

news reports Al-Jazeera Fox News Iraq ideology labels information structure critical discourse analysis