Political TV Debate Programmes as Ideological Representatives: Al-Sharqyia Presenters' Ideology: Critical Discourse Analysis
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https://doi.org/10.51699/literature.v5i1.304Keywords:
Al-Sharqyia Presenters' Ideology, CDA, Ideological sequare, Van Dijk's Theory of Mental ModelAbstract
The current study adopts the critical discourse analysis to investigate the way presenters of Al-Sharqyia Satellite Channel use to view events and actions during the Iraqi demonstrations. It aims to show the presenters' prejudices whether they are with Us (the Iraqi protesters) or with Them (the government). It also tries to investigate that Al-Sharqia presenters are neutral or not, and prejudiced with one-sided ideology towards the conflicted parties. The focus of the problem is to show whether reports are prejudiced towards the Iraqi protesters rather than the government's security forces or not through observing the discourse features in which one can understand the ideology of the text or the talk by following Van Dijk's model. Al-Sharqyia News presenters' ideologies will be analyzed through the use of some discourse features following Van Dijk's (1998) model of 'ideological square'. It concludes that the presenters are not impartial; rather, they have a biased ideology that favors the demonstrators in Iraq against the government.
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