Constructing Perceptions of Sexual Orientation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of Transitivity in the Irish Press

Bartley, Leanne; Tenorio, Encarnación Hidalgo

doi:10.24162/ei2015-5347

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“…Therefore, the portrayal is conveyed as a Western conspiracy, where the role of the moderate Syrian rebels is greatly marginalized. This conclusion is in line with Bartley and Hidalgo-Tenorio's (2015) findings that media disseminate and sell the ideology of power holders and government lobbies; hence, Fars news conforms with the Iranian government's political position towards the Syrian revolution.…”

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Media Bias: A Corpus-based Linguistic Analysis of Online Iranian Coverage of the Syrian Revolution

Al-Gamde

Tenbrink

2020

Open Linguistics

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This study explores the influence of a government’s ideology on linguistic representation in a news agency that characterizes itself as independent. It focuses on the coverage of the Syrian civil war as reported by the Iranian news agency Fars, addressing the discursive constructions of anti-government powers in relevant online reports released between 2013 and 2015. Since the Islamic Republic of Iran was a major regional ally of the Syrian government, we questioned the extent to which ideological independence could be expected during a politically critical time frame. Taking a corpus-based linguistic approach, the study explores the semantic macrostructures representing the opposition as well as the lexical clusters and keywords characterizing the news discourse. The findings indicate that Fars’ representation of the Syrian Revolution was, to some extent, biased, despite its claimed independence of the government’s political stance. It excluded the Sunni social actors, suppressed the Islamic faction identity of the rebels and depicted the uprising as a war against foreign-backed militants. The rebels were stereotyped in terms of terrorism and non-Syrians. In addition, the analysis reveals Fars’ tendency to emphasize the power of the government, depicting it as the defender of the Arab land and foregrounding the discourse of international conspiracy against Syria. The results of this work project the dimension of media bias caused by the underpinning political perspective of media institutions.

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Media Bias: A Corpus-based Linguistic Analysis of Online Iranian Coverage of the Syrian Revolution

Al-Gamde

Tenbrink

2020

Open Linguistics

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“…That said, there are other researchers who counter this view and, rather, assert that nominalisations can indeed serve to represent processes (cf. Simon-Vandenbergen et al 2003;Bartley and Hidalgo-Tenorio 2015) and, in fact, their use is likely to serve a particular purpose. Woods (2006), for instance, argues that one function of nominalisations is to obscure the participant(s) involved and, especially, anyone who is considered responsible for the process.…”

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Putting transitivity to the test: a review of the Sydney and Cardiff models

Bartley

2018

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“…Experiential metafunction is also known as a transitivity system. Bartley and Hidalgo-Tenorio (2015) pointed out that transitivity analysis allows us to identify how people can describe their experiences in discourse using syntactic and lexical tools. The analysis focuses on finding 'who did what, to whom, and under what circumstances?'…”

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Transitivity and critical discourse analysis on a testament: A woman’s involvement in jihad

Gunawan

Kuraedah

Amir

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SiELE

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While a plethora of scholars have explored a growing body of research on women’s involvement in Jihad, there is still a paucity of studies addressing it using the hybridity of transitivity analysis and critical discourse analysis. The present study examined a testament left by an Indonesian woman involved in what she fallaciously called ‘Jihad’. To collect the data, the document analysis was adopted, meanwhile, Halliday and Matthiessen’s transitivity analysis (2004) and Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis (2003) were employed to analyze the data. The findings demonstrated that the experience of the woman’s involvement in jihad was described by the dominant use of material process verbs (59.4%), followed by relational process (19%), mental process (13.5%), and verbal process (8.1%). The transitivity analysis showcases that the testament is not an average text with a religious message or instructions to deal with the left property; instead, it contains a message of the Salafi Jihadist ideology of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which might put people’s lives in peril. The five core teachings of ISIS encapsulate the message of ideological teachings, including jihad (struggle in the context of religious war), takfiri (ex-communication), al-wala’ and al-barra’ (loyalty and disavowal for the sake of God), tauhid (unitary oneness of God), and tahkimiyah (the rule of God – both religiously and politically). The study findings implicate that we must raise awareness of all kinds of testaments left by the jihadi woman because these testaments may contain a global jihadist doctrine. With this in mind, we will not be easily persuaded to join a Salafi jihadist organization.

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Constructing Perceptions of Sexual Orientation: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of Transitivity in the Irish Press

Cited by 14 publications

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Media Bias: A Corpus-based Linguistic Analysis of Online Iranian Coverage of the Syrian Revolution

Media Bias: A Corpus-based Linguistic Analysis of Online Iranian Coverage of the Syrian Revolution

Putting transitivity to the test: a review of the Sydney and Cardiff models

Transitivity and critical discourse analysis on a testament: A woman’s involvement in jihad

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