Abstract
News reports are regarded as a reflection of world reality. People around the world are watching the news reports to get the first aid information about incidents or events they need. Hence, languages in the news reports are, of course, considered neutral, impartial, and unbiased. Thus, this paper attempts to provide a critical discourse analysis CDA of a news report in its online version taken from the Guardian newspaper regarding the mass shooting of the Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand. In this respect, Halliday’s systematic functional grammar is employed to explore the linguistic features along with two CDA’s tools (nominalization and passivization). Moreover, the researcher used these different tools of discourse analysis to unfold the use of biased language in this news report. For achieving this goal, the paper attempts to define some theoretical background of the CDA approach with its tools initially. Afterward, there is an interpretation and discussion of the analysis which is adopted based on CDA tools. However, the result of the analysis unfolded that Guardian news reports concerning the two Mosques shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand were not remained unbiased in reporting such sensitive issues. The implication for the journalists is to keep always their impartiality in advance while reporting any incidents or events.
Highlights
It is a fact that in this contemporary world of technology people turned to various resources of information like; social media, newspapers, and televisions to keep updated on the important incidents happening around the world
The present paper aims to achieve its goal by using different analytical tools of critical discourse analysis CDA to find out the linguistic features and the ideology of the news report about the Christchurch mosques shooting
The present paper has tried to unfold the ideological bias of the author’s perspective regarding the perception of terrorism, extremism, and racism concerning the mass shooting of the Muslims in New Zealand
Summary
It is a fact that in this contemporary world of technology people turned to various resources of information like; social media, newspapers, and televisions to keep updated on the important incidents happening around the world. The number of languages and discourses is being transmitted to people via different types of media which the role of a newspaper is considered prominent in manipulation. Fowler (1991) indicates that newspapers are not impartial in reporting the different events when they follow a viewpoint. When an event happens around the world the news reports are different in terms of their ideologies and the terminologies they use to a piece of specific news. The present paper aims to achieve its goal by using different analytical tools of critical discourse analysis CDA to find out the linguistic features and the ideology of the news report about the Christchurch mosques shooting. What linguistic features are used in the news report of the Guardian about Christchurch mosques shooting in New Zealand? This study is going to answer the following questions: 1. What linguistic features are used in the news report of the Guardian about Christchurch mosques shooting in New Zealand?
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