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25th Jan Revolution in the Articles of New York Times: A Study in Critical Discourse Analysis

Journalists have covered the 25th January Egyptian revolution analyzing and expressing opinions. The thesis is concerned with the inconsistency of their stances and positions. More specifically, it investigates shifts in the political stances of American journalists during and post the January 25th Egyptian Revolution. The thesis adopts Fairclough’s (1992, 2010) three-dimension framework of discourse, together with, Fairclough & Fairclough’s (2012) argumentation model to investigate the corpus of the current work. The corpus incorporates ten articles, seven editorials and three op-ed articles, that are published in the American newspaper New York Times on the Egyptian revolution from January 25th, 2011 to March 31st, 2011. Analysis is conducted on three levels; textual, discursive and social. Results indicate that writers are bias, taking sides and changing them according to the changes of the events. Thus, the articles witness a gradual change of stance from the pro-Mubarak and anti-revolution stances to the anti-Mubarak and pro-revolution stances.

‘Something about Burnley’: Political dynamics in Labour’s ‘most winnable’ target seat

Do reactions to the onslaught on Gaza in a northern English town signal any wider political realignment in ‘red wall’ constituencies? George Galloway’s success in the February 2023 Rochdale by-election generated scores of op-ed articles. Ali Milani of the Labour Muslim Network identified it as ‘evidence of a serious problem Labour has with the trust and support of the Muslim community, who Labour has enjoyed the support of for decades’. This article focuses on another northern English town where half the Labour councillors responded to Starmer’s opposition to a ceasefire in Gaza by resigning from the party. In a granular case-study analysis of relationships and realignments in local politics, it identifies the wider patterns and problems behind the current headlines. Alongside long-term trends of de-alignment between Labour and constituencies which have previously supported it, a managerialist and controlling culture has narrowed discussion and shallowed debate, reducing the party???s ability to engage the energies and represent the views and interests of many people who nevertheless still see themselves as holding to ‘Labour values’.

THE PARALLELISM OF ENGLISH AND URDU PRESS IN PAKISTAN: CHALLENGES AND OUTCOMES

This paper examines Urdu and English press in Pakistan to identify the differences between the two. Linguistically, both Urdu and English mass media function as the leading media of Pakistan; however, the differences of news and views in presentation, style, and focus refer to an information chasm that we call ‘information segregation.’ In our study, that spans over the period of one-year, i.e., January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023, we essentially engage in a critical discourse analysis of front-page news stories and op-ed articles (mostly editorials) of four national broadsheet newspapers, especially for two important incidents in 2023, i.e., (i) the May 9 riots, and (ii) the Jaranwala incident. Our analysis demonstrates that there is a difference of focus and presentation style especially in issues related to disputing the status quo and having a bold/critical stance on religiously controversial and sensitive issues such as blasphemy law. In this difference, English media appears to have an audacious approach as compared to Urdu media. With Walter Lipmann, we argue that news and views in media are subject to journalistic and editorial choices. Although studying the reasons of these choices is beyond the scope of this study, we contend that a linguistically different mass media in Pakistan creates (and perpetuates) different worldview for its audience, which is unaligned with inclusive and egalitarian norms of a democratic society.

SRBUHI TYUSAB’S PUBLICISM, SOCIAL-PUBLIC VIEWS AND ROLE IN WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION PROCESSES

The study examined fiction and journalistic activities, articles, and socio-public views of the Western Armenian Constantinople writer of the second half of the 19th century, Srbuhi Tyusab. Tyusab’s publicism was a new experience of broadcasting political, socio-public and literary-cultural dialogues, which was most popular in the second half of the 19th century. The aim of the study is to reveal the author's literary-cultural and socio-public views, as well as their role in the processes of women's emancipation, by examining Srbuhi Tyusab’s op-ed articles. The problem of the study is to analyze the publicistic legacy of the Western Armenian female author of the second half of the 19th century, Srbuhi Tyusab, which has not been properly examined yet. The novelty of the study is the attempt to interpret the ways of women's emancipation and development in a new fashion. The study is interdisciplinary. It was analyzed in the context of the reciprocal connections and relationships between literary studies, history, anthropology, and ethno-culture. Literary critical, philosophical, and linguistic methods were applied, highlighting and focusing the various manifestations and stratifications existing in Srbuhi Tyusab's op-ed articles within the scope of the studied material. This kind of study has been done for the first time. It is important and relevant not only from the point of view of interdisciplinarity, but also from the point of view of analyzing women’s issues in Armenology.

HEDGING THROUGH THE USE OF IMPERSONAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN INDONESIAN OP-ED ARTICLES

The presence of an opinion editorial (op-ed) page has provided room for the public to articulate their ideas about the recent salient issues at no cost. The notion that the authors of an op-ed article could express their ideas and arguments in public space makes them need certain devices like hedges to protect themselves from any negative consequences such as rejection from readers if in fact their argument is considered false. This article is intended to investigate the use of impersonal constructions as hedging devices in 45 Indonesian opinion editorial articles published by three leading national newspapers: Kompas, Tempo, and Republika. Impersonal construction in this case refers to a grammatical construction that avoids the use of a human subject in the sentence. This construction includes the use of agentless passive voice and abstract rhetors. A qualitative research design is applied in this study. This study reveals 56 occurrences of impersonal construction with details of 53 data belonging to the agentless passive voice category and 3 data belonging to the abstract rhetors category in the 45 articles examined. The use of such constructions in op-ed articles can be a means to protect the authors from the consequences of being blamed if in any case, the argument they stated is different from the reality. Furthermore, this construction can also be used to avoid the subjectivity of the claim and direct the focus of the argument to the content of the text and not the authors.Â

More Media Agenda against Bernie Sanders? Examining the Emotional Tone of US Political Op-Ed Articles in 2019-20

More Media Agenda against Bernie Sanders? Examining the Emotional Tone of US Political Op-Ed Articles in 2019-20

Introducing Mass Communications Strategies to Medical Students: A Novel Short Session for Fourth-Year Students.

ProblemThe World Health Organization calls on all with quality medical information to share it with the public and combat health misinformation; however, U.S. medical schools do not currently teach students effective communication with lay audiences about health. Most physicians have inadequate training in mass communication strategies.ApproachIn August 2018, a novel 90-minute class at the University of Minnesota Medical School introduced fourth-year medical students to basic skills for communicating with lay audiences through mass media. Instructors were physicians with experience interacting with the general public via radio, op-ed articles, social media, print media, television, and community and legislative advocacy. After a 20-minute lecture and sharing of instructors’ personal experiences, students completed two 30-minute small-group activities. They identified communications objectives and talking points for a health topic, drafting these as Tweets or an op-ed article outline, then presented talking points in a mock press conference with their peers, practicing skills just learned. Pre- and postsurveys documented students’ previous engagement and comfort with future engagement with mass media messaging.OutcomesOver 1 week, 142 students participated in 6 separate classes, and 127 completed both pre- and postsurveys. Before the course, only 6% (7/127) of students had comfortably engaged with social media and 14% (18/127) had engaged with traditional media in their professional roles. After the course, students self-reported an increase in their comfort, perceived ability, and likelihood of using specific communications skills to advocate for their patients (all P < .001).Next StepsThe course will be expanded into a 5-session thread for third- and fourth-year medical students spread over 2 years. This thread will include meeting physicians who engage with lay audiences, identifying best practices for mass health communication, identifying bias and misinformation, “dos and don’ts” of social media, and communication skills for legislative advocacy.

Self-othering to power: vilification, ridicule and moral claims in the Israeli right ‘underdog’ discourse

ABSTRACT Although the Israeli right holds an equal – if not superior – position of power within the Israeli bi-polar political cleavage, its leaders and spokespersons continue to nurture a group identity of an excluded, marginalized and oppressed ideological movement. This study examines the discursive practice of ‘self-othering’ in Israeli right-wing discourse. Focusing on a particular case study – op-ed articles and commentaries published by right-wing opinion makers during the military crisis of summer 2006 – the study analyzes the Israeli right’s rhetoric of polarization in terms of movement-countermovement competitive framing process. Drawing on frame theory and historical discourse approach, the analysis shows how victimage discourse is employed by the Israeli right to delegitimize the left as being an oppressive elite, and to frame right-wing affiliation as a social identity of a popular movement whose members are mobilized to a continuous struggle against the ‘hegemonic control’ of the left.

Confronting Reagan and the Contras: Costa Rica’s public opinion and the debate over peace in Central America, 1986-1987

Este artículo explora la construcción de una opinión pública en Costa Rica acerca de la guerra en Nicaragua entre los sandinistas y La Contra en 1986-1987 y sobre la política internacional de Costa Rica frente a ese conflicto y frente a los propósitos de expansión de la guerra del presidente estadounidense Ronald Reagan. Se revisan las opiniones emitidas por varios intelectuales costarricenses acerca del plan de paz de Óscar Arias y la construcción que hicieron de su imagen entre 1986 y 1987. Queda en evidencia que en su afán de producir un total apoyo al plan de paz, los intelectuales costarricenses promovieron acríticamente a Arias como un héroe nacional, regional y casi mundial.

The Op-ed Articles on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Project: A Rhetorical Analysis

This paper attempts to make a rhetorical analysis of six op-ed articles on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) project, which are published online in the English daily newspapers of Nepal. This study has discussed about how the authors in each article have used the language and context as a medium to persuade the readers in favour or in opposition of the MCC project and also to identify the rhetorical techniques that are used to accomplish their purpose. The rhetorical analysis is supported by the theoretical ideas of Aristotle and Kenneth Burke. In particular, Burke's concept of dramatism pentad has been used to find the answer of what was done (act), when or where it was done (scene), who did it (agent), how he did it (agency) and why (purpose). The findings of the study show that these authors have used effective rhetorical techniques to present the same situation in different ways, using their percussive appeals in their writing and the motive to bring the readers under their rhetorical influence. This study further found that the authors have used logos (logical reasoning) as the major tool to support the MCC project and have mainly used the scene-purpose ratio as a rhetorical tool to push the anti-MCC ideas. Finally, the study concludes that tracing out the relationship between the pentadic elements helps the critical readers to find the specific motives of the authors and also identify the rhetorical techniques used in their writing.

Actors (Media policy/ Meta journalism)

Actors (Media policy/ Meta journalism)

Reframing East Asia: hegemony and soft power in U.S. media discourse

ABSTRACT East Asia has rarely been an object of media framing studies, despite its coherent cultural heritage and political importance. Seizing upon the media’s intensive attention on the Pivot to Asia Strategy of the Obama administration, this study looked into the U.S. media’s framing of East Asia and how it has changed over time. A mixed-method analysis of editorials and op-ed articles of U.S. national newspapers between 1997 and 2013 identified two contrasting macro frames. The ideological frame that reflects U.S. hegemonic interest has been gradually replaced by the transactional frame as the dominant frame of East Asia. Under the transactional frame, the media were less likely than under the ideological frame to highlight the values such as democracy, human rights, and free economic market. In each issue-specific frame, focus shifted from maintaining global status quo to regional balance of power, from global free market to bilateral economic competition. Implications on the recent foreign policy developments are discussed.

Offer Some Guidance to Those Submitting Op‐Ed Articles

Nonprofit Communications ReportVolume 19, Issue 2 p. 7-7 Opinion Pieces Offer Some Guidance to Those Submitting Op-Ed Articles First published: 07 January 2021 https://doi.org/10.1002/npcr.31673Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume19, Issue2February 2021Pages 7-7 RelatedInformation

Türkçe Gazete Köşe Yazılarında Aktarım Tümcelerinin Söylem İşlevleri

Reported speech/quotations are used to insert other voices in texts, resulting in a form of intertextuality. With this characteristic, they are a form of intertextuality. Reporting can be through direct, indirect, strategic, transformed indirect and ostensible direct quotations and these involve ideological implications since they are closely related to evaluation and assessment. In this study, different types of reported speech and their discursive functions have been studied within the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis in the op-ed articles in nine different newspapers known to be the representatives of different political ideologies. According to the findings of the study, direct quotations are the most frequently used type of reported speech and they are followed by indirect quotations in all types of ideologies. Considering type and ideology relationship, it has been found that writers of secular ideology use direct, strategical and transformed indirect quotations more frequently than the others. On the other hand, indirect and ostensible direct quotations are used more frequently in Islamist ideology. Regarding their discursive functions, writers use quotations to realize different aims: tangibly supporting their arguments to make themselves more creditable, increase the reliability of their arguments, legitimize/validate their own statements; dramatizing events; evading responsibility by distancing themselves from the source of information; describing and disparaging the characteristics of the person they quote or report; bringing the opposing opinions to the attention of the readers; providing the background of a piece of information; describing the characteristics of the person quoted and praising them.

Ten simple rules for writing scientific op-ed articles.

Ten simple rules for writing scientific op-ed articles.

Process Type Selection in the Discourse of Op-ed Articles: The Effect of Gender and Political Ideology

Bu çalışmada bir medya söylem türü olan gazete köşe yazıları incelenerek kadın ve erkek köşe yazarlarının gerçekliğe ilişkin zihinsel temsillerini dil dizgesine aktarımında yaptıkları süreç seçimlerinin bir farklılık gösterip göstermediğinin ve politik ideolojinin söz konusu seçimde bir etmen olup olmadığının ortaya konması amaçlanmıştır. Bu amaç doğrultusunda Dizgeci İşlevsel Dilbilgisi Kuramı temel alınarak, köşe yazıları dilin üstişlevlerinden düşünsel üstişlevin bir alt ulamı olan yaşantısal üstişlevin inceleme alanlarından biri olan geçişlilik dizgesi çerçevesinde çözümlenmiş, yazar cinsiyetinin ve gazetenin benimsediği politik ideolojinin süreç seçimindeki etkisi irdelenmiştir. Çalışmanın bulguları, kadın ve erkek köşe yazarların gerçekliği farklı süreçler aracılığıyla kurguladığını, kadın köşe yazarların, metinlerinde zihinsel, ilişkisel ve davranışsal süreç türlerini, erkek köşe yazarların ise maddesel süreç türünü daha çok yeğlediklerini göstermektedir. Ayrıca gazetenin politik ideolojisinin kadın ve erkek köşe yazarların yaptıkları süreç seçimlerinde etkili olduğu saptanmıştır. Buna göre Laik ve Liberal ideolojide kadın köşe yazarlar, İslami ideolojide ise erkek köşe yazarlar ilişkisel süreçleri daha çok kullanmaktadır.

The effects of Kobane in the reconfiguration of the popular geopolitical codes of Turkey’s Kurdish movement

ABSTRACTThe attack carried out by Daesh against Kobane in 2014 prompted the mobilization of worldwide media attention and of large crowds protesting across Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast and beyond. This paper examines the potentially transformative effects of this event on the popular geopolitical codes of the Kurdish nationalist movement in Turkey. This is done through a qualitative content analysis of 36 op-ed articles published in the newspapers Evrensel and Özgür Gündem. Three core findings stand out: (a) a constant emphasis on Turkey's alleged links with Daesh, even before Kobane; (b) a boundary deactivation with respect to the US and ‘the West’; and (c) a re-articulation of self-representative frames, which initially relied on post-materialistic arguments and later emphasized security and stability.

Исторические источники начала ХХ в. о сибирском студенчестве

The article examines the early 20th century historical source base on the Siberian student community of the pre-revolutionary period. It argues that the sources complex of the period is heterogeneous in structure, nature, and content. It determines that the life of Siberian students, as depicted in the early 20th century sources from state archives, was recorded principally in the following aspects: approved and regulated university activities (admission, scholarships, training, participation in registered student organizations, fraternities, academic clubs, etc.) and oppositional, political, ideological activities of students prohibited by both central and local authorities and, in some cases, by university administration that followed the instructions. More details on pressing issues of student life (poverty, employment issues, etc.) unfold in the periodicals. There was a series of analytical and op-ed articles in the Sibirskii student (‘Siberian student’) and Sibirskie voprosy (‘Siberian issues’) magazines, in the Sibirskaya zhizn' (‘Siberian life’) and Utro Sibiri (‘The morning of Siberia’), and some others. The article shows that, apart from poverty and domestic issues, the informal student life, as lived outside educational institutions and politics (that is, love, friendship, attitude toward family, marriage, taste and theater preferences, fashion, and so on), went unreported. Some aspects of this life were pictured in fiction, published, for instance, in the Tomsk student press. But although they give some idea of the Siberian students’ view and ways of life, these sources don’t record facts of life.

Thinking about Tipping Points

When I introduced infinite series to my calculus students, I recalled an interview (The OpEd Project n. d.) with Katie Orenstein—founder of The Op-ed Project—concerning the percentages of women who publish op-ed articles in mainstream newspapers. Currently, women's voices make up only 15 percent of these high-profile opinion pages that contribute thought leadership on local, state, national, and international problems. However, Orenstein conjectured that if her organization could foster change so that 30 percent of op-eds were written by women, then mainstream media would reach a “tipping point,” after which we might soon achieve gender equity on our nation's op-ed pages. Could teaching my students why certain infinite series converge to specific values on the number line while others “tip,” diverging to infinity, foster their abilities to make our world more equitable?

Taking climate change seriously: An analysis of op-ed articles in Spanish press.

In this article, we study the evolution of opinion genres regarding climate change in three Spanish newspapers ( El País, El Mundo, and ABC). Analyzing the op-ed articles in these newspapers, we observe a significant change in the evolution of opinion. While denialism was very present in conservative press in 2007, 7 years later it is almost absent from El Mundo, and its presence in ABC is much lower and inactive: this shows that scientific consensus has prevailed over time and Spanish denialism has weakened, exclusively supported by political arguments by the most conservative parties.