Ideological Basis of the Discourse of War - In the Case of Us-Iraq

ISBN-13: 9783845408866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 116 str.

Nasser Oroujlou

Opis

Newspapers and media are very important and effective in modern world. This book provides straightforward and critical analysis of the news structures of US-Iraq war in Al Jazeera and CNN networks and reveals pre-textual mental strategies underlying news discourse. These strategies are more or less international plan of practices adopted to achieve a particular social, political, psychological, or linguistic aims. The book aims to discover and bear witness to unequal relations of power which underlie ways of talking in a society and it aims in particular, to reveal the role of Critical Linguistics in reproducing or challenging socio-political dominance. The linguistic tools under the rubric of Critical Linguistics disclose the fact that journalists and politicians through shrewd manipulating of the lexis and changing grammatical role of the words magnify the matters according to their own interests. Using a wealth of case study, this informative new source offers a unique and outstanding perspective for journalism and is stimulating for educators and teachers dealing with teaching of foreign language...

O autorze

Nasser Oroujlou is lecturer in TEFL at Payame Noor University, KHOY, IRAN. He is doing research on subjects including: language and ideology, Critical Linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, and foreign language learning. He has attended in International Conferences and has published several papers in International Journals.