The language of the news has been found to have a persuasive and powerful role in reproducing discourse of a certain party. This study aims to illustrate that the the two opposing parties, The United States and Iraq, viewed the war from different perspectives, thus producing different discourses. A corpus of 90 news reports taken from two English language newspapers, The New York Times, published in the United States of America and The Daily Star, published in Lebanon, are analyzed using Hallidays transitivity model and Lakoffs conceptual metaphors. The transitivity model shows...
The language of the news has been found to have a persuasive and powerful role in reproducing discourse of a certain party. This study aims ...