Linguistic Legitimation of Political Events in Newspaper Discourse

Autor/inn/en	Ali, Marwah Kareem; Christopher, Anne A.; Nordin, Munif Zarirruddin Fikri B.
Titel	Linguistic Legitimation of Political Events in Newspaper Discourse
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 7 (2016) 4, S.76-83 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Newspapers; Discourse Analysis; Current Events; Political Issues; Armed Forces; War; Metalinguistics; Journalism; Foreign Countries; Language Usage; English (Second Language); Data Analysis; Validity; Content Analysis; Journal Articles; Verbs; Iraq + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Newspaper; Zeitung; Diskursanalyse; Aktualität; Politischer Faktor; Military; Militär; Krieg; Metalanguage; Metasprache; Journalistik; Journalismus; Ausland; Sprachgebrauch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Auswertung; Gültigkeit; Inhaltsanalyse; Journal article; Zeitschriftenaufsatz; Irak
Abstract	This paper examines the discursive structures employed in legitimizing the event of U.S. forces withdrawal from Iraq and identifies them in relation to linguistic features. It attempts to describe the relation between language use and legitimation discursive structures in depicting political events. The paper focuses on the political event of U.S. forces' withdrawal from Iraq in the English newspaper issued in Iraq. The study shows the way in which journalists express their values and attitudes concerning this critical event. Consequently, this requires a critical discourse analysis (henceforth, CDA) to analyse news articles in the Iraqi English newspaper: The "Kurdish Globe" (henceforth, KG) newspaper. Accordingly, the study presents a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles to identify the legitimation discursive structures and their linguistic features. It is found that the main discursive structures of legitimation employed in the KG newspaper are: authorization, rationalization, and moral evaluation. Besides, there were five verb processes used to represent this legitimation, including material, verbal, relational, mental, and existential. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01