A Critical Discourse Analysis of Discursive Reproduction of Ideologies in Pakistani and Indian Press Media in the Aftermath of Pulwama Attack

Abstract

The present study, based on Van Dijk (2005) ideological square model, aims to show how the two countries, i.e., Pakistan and India, represent each other through their newspaper's discourse. Using Van Dijk's (2005) framework (positive self-presentation, negative other-presentation) for discourse analysis, this study examines linguistic features in fifty editorials of three Pakistani and three Indian English newspapers. The aforementioned model adopted from Politics, Ideology and Discourse is used to detect discursive structures within editorials and to discover the hidden ideologies. Besides, the researchers have used different discursive strategies such as actor description, euphemism, evidentiality etc., for microanalysis. Moreover, the macro analysis has been done by using the macro strategies, i.e., positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation. The study revealed that Pakistani editorials used micro strategies more than that Indians. The study also revealed that Pakistani editorials relied mostly on positive self-presentation, while Indian editorials focused on negative other-presentation.

Modal Auxiliaries in Selected Newspaper Editorials on Medical Brain Drain in Nigeria

“…One of such issues of national concern is the emigration of health workers in Nigeria and its implication on the society. While extant studies on newspaper editorials have focused on the structure of editorials (Sunday and Fagunleka 2017), style (Bakuuro and Diedong 2020), ideology (Mahmood et al 2018; Khan et al 2020), discourse representation (Osisanwo 2022), modality (Bonyadi 2011;Alfred 2021); studies on the deployment of modality in newspaper editorials to project stances and opinions on topical issues are limited. This study is therefore aimed at engaging newspapers editorials on medical brain drain in Nigeria with the purpose of investigating the use of modal auxiliaries in stance taking.…”