Critical Discourse Analysis
Adel Mohammadi; Ferdows Aghagolzadeh; Zahra Abolhasani Chime
Volume 13, Issue 2 , February 2022, , Pages 195-224
Abstract
The Pahlavi era has given racial framing forward to minorities in the press texts, therefore, linguistic analysis of the mentioned period can show what narratives are being presented to and adopted by the public.The present study investigates the linguistic and ideological components of ethnic minorities ...
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The Pahlavi era has given racial framing forward to minorities in the press texts, therefore, linguistic analysis of the mentioned period can show what narratives are being presented to and adopted by the public.The present study investigates the linguistic and ideological components of ethnic minorities in the press of Pahlavi. The data of this research are collected from these newspaper '350 texts at the specified interval (1945 to 1947).The research methodology is type a descriptive – analytic and it by using the van Dijk's Model of Critical Discourse Analysis of racism intends to analyze the texts of the mentioned newspapers. The findings show that newspapers affiliation with power structures has influenced how editors' ideas and thoughts towards ethnic minorities, because these newspapers by using underlying and meaning ideologies in the model of van Dijk racism such as lexical item , syntactic structure, topics, polarization, Topoi, speech acts and presuppositions show covert racism and marginalize ethnic minorities. It can be said that this model can correctly analyze newspaper data on racism.
