El-Tawassol التواصل
Volume 26, Numéro 2, Pages 498-508
2023-02-28

Critical Discourse Analysis: A Functional Research Tool For News Reports Analysis

Authors : Amari Fatma Zohra . Hamlaoui Naima .

Abstract

This paper investigates how Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is used to reveal the relationship between the linguistic choices and socio-ideological context in news reports. The study adopts Fairclough’s framework for CDA to analyse the lexical choices used in Al-Jazeera English reporting of the Iraq war. The findings reveal that the lexical choices reflect the social and ideological practices of the network. The study concludes that CDA is an effective research tool to unveil the ideological meaning of news texts and language use, hence it helps raising awareness towards language power.

Keywords

Critical Discourse Analysis CDA ; Fairclough's framework ; ideology ; news language