Towards (De-)legitimation Discursive Strategies in News Coverage of Egyptian Protest:VOA &amp; Fars News in Focus

Sadeghi, Bahador; Hassani, Mohammad Taghi; Jalali, Vahid

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.03.581

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“…In this case, the expert occupies the subject position (e.g. Some experts say it is best to kiss the child, not look back and go; Dr. Juan believes it may be a good idea to spend some time with the child in class) (Sadeghi, Hassani, & Jalali, 2014, p. 1583van Leeuwen, 2007van Leeuwen, , p. 95, 2008).…”

Section: Authorizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Legitimization and Delegitimization Strategies in the Arab Quartet's Boycott of Qatar: A CrossLinguistic Study

الزوکة¹

2018

مجلة کلية الآداب . جامعة الإسکندرية

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The present study examines the (de) legitimization strategies used in the statements made by diplomats from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, the four Arab states that severed ties with Qatar on June 5, 2017 for supporting and funding terrorism, in interviews, press conferences, and UN Security Council meetings. It also examines these strategies in the statements made by the U.S. State Department spokesperson in Department press briefings. Employing van Leeuwen's (2007) and Reyes' (2011) (de) legitimization strategies, the study also investigates the linguistic devices used to realize the (de)legitimization strategies as well as the functions that these strategies and their linguistic realizations fulfill. The study shows that diplomats from the Arab quartet use a number of (de)legitimization strategies, such as authorization, moral evaluation, a hypothetical future, and altruism, to directly and explicitly legitimize the decision to boycott Qatar and delegitimize its policies. It also reveals that the U.S. indirectly and implicitly delegitimizes boycotting Qatar, and explicitly legitimizes Qatar's efforts to fight terrorism and extremism as well as Kuwait's mediation efforts. The study develops the strategy of posing unanswered questions which is used to legitimize some actions and delegitimize others.

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Section: Authorizationmentioning

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“…The strategy of analogies refers to making comparisons that have legitimizing or delegitimizing purposes (Sadeghi et al, 2014;van Leeuwen, 2008). The questions "Why must I do this?…”

Section: Moral Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Legitimization and Delegitimization Strategies in the Arab Quartet's Boycott of Qatar: A CrossLinguistic Study

الزوکة¹

2018

مجلة کلية الآداب . جامعة الإسکندرية

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“…Recently, newspaper discourse attracts the researchers' attention in the critical analysis field, particularly in relation to political issues (Sadeghi, Hassani, & Jalali, 2014). The essence of the newspaper discourse has changed.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The essence of the newspaper discourse has changed. Thus, news articles in newspapers can be analysed to disclose the underlying intentions hidden behind the discursive construction of them (Sadeghi et al, 2014). Newspapers occupy an important role in any modern society since they address its various issues.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pronouns and Ideology in Newspaper Discourse

Ali

Christopher

Nordin

2017

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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It is a fact that the role of pronouns, especially personal pronouns, in representing socio-political ideologies is not new as it has been studied extensively in relation to political discourse. However, this role needs to be examined in the newspaper discourse. Consequently, the current paper intends to examine personal and possessive pronouns used in newspaper articles to represent socio-political ideologies. Such a study requires a critical discourse analysis (CDA) to analyse excerpts from news articles in Iraqi English newspaper, known as the Kurdish Globe (henceforth, KG), on the event of American military forces’ (henceforth, AMFs’) withdrawal from Iraq. Using a qualitative content analysis, the excerpts are categorized thematically in relation to the ideological values found in them. It is revealed that the KG newspaper made use of direct quotation of American politicians’ statements which contain plural personal and possessive pronouns when referring to their actions. This has served two aspects; firstly, it showed its objectivity in conveying the news event using quotations of newsworthy value. Secondly, it enhanced its socio-political ideologies through the direct quotations of American politicians whose government has a powerful authority over Iraq. On the one hand, the KG newspaper used personal and possessive pronouns associated with the positive representation of the U.S. government and its forces to show its trust in them. On the other hand, personal and possessive pronouns related to the Iraqi politicians were associated with negative representation to enhance its distrust in the Iraqi government.

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“…Recently, newspaper discourse attracts the researchers' attention in the critical analysis field, particularly in relation to political issues (Farahani & Ahmadian, 2014;Sadeghi, Hassani, & Jalali, 2014). The essence of the newspaper discourse has changed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Linguistic Legitimation of Political Events in Newspaper Discourse

2016

ALLS

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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.

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Towards (De-)legitimation Discursive Strategies in News Coverage of Egyptian Protest:VOA & Fars News in Focus

Cited by 18 publications

References 13 publications

Legitimization and Delegitimization Strategies in the Arab Quartet's Boycott of Qatar: A CrossLinguistic Study

Legitimization and Delegitimization Strategies in the Arab Quartet's Boycott of Qatar: A CrossLinguistic Study

Pronouns and Ideology in Newspaper Discourse

Linguistic Legitimation of Political Events in Newspaper Discourse

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