DISCOURSE OF IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY: THE TALIBAN’S WOMEN EDUCATION BAN POLICY IN AFGHANISTAN
Abstract
Online newspaper is one of the media in the present time that can convey modified information according to the ideology of the institution. It can create a public opinion amongst its readers depending on how the media represents the state of the world. In addition, Stuart Hall (1997) clarifies that no accurate representation exists because there are many different ways to represent them depending on the person. The news discourse within a media can represent a problem within a nation from the perspective of ordinary people in which it may portray more about its effect on their daily life, but can also represent the problem from a general point of view in which it may only portray the general scale of effects on the people. To understand the meaning or ideology behind the text, one would need to conduct a discourse analysis. It is noted that Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is one of the more appropriate perspectives that can be used in analysing discourse in a news item. According to van Dijk (2008), CDA is a discourse investigation that investigates social power, dominance, and imbalance. There are many frameworks within the category of CDA. However, this essay only uses the framework proposed by Theo van Leeuwen, which is social actor analysis..
Keywords: newspaper, CDA
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