Critical discourse analysis of the Iraq conflict in the British and German 'quality' press

Abstract

This paper focuses on how the British and Germán' quality' press has dealt with the warfare interests of the US administration in Iraq. In this context, particularly the papers' presentation practices with regard to the ostensible existence of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and the alleged terrorist connection of al Qaeda with Saddam Hussein will be closely investigated. In order to operationalise this research agenda, I follow a cultural heuristics of research that consists of a social studies approach and the application of pragmalinguistic methods (including the analysis of frames, conceptoal metaphors, speech acts, schemata of communication etc.) from a genre-based perspective. By virtue of this framework, it becomes possible to determine press genres and their cultural impact as well as the borderlines of discourse cultures about the de-/construction of war. The findings comprise a wide variety of empirical evidence for the shaping of policy lines in the papers' front page articles from a comparative intra-European perspective.

Quand les médias traduisent la crise : les métaphores utilisées par la presse généraliste pendant la crise des subprimes

“…Celles-ci participent à construire les représentations de l'ordre social (Fowler, Hodge, et al 1979 ;Van Dijk 1988 ;Bell 1991 ;1998 ;Fairclough 1992 ;. En tant qu'assemblage de significations, de métaphores, de représentations, d'images, de récits et d'affirmations, le discours permet de construire une version particulière d'un événement (Burr 1995 ;Dirks 2006 ;Li 2009 ;. Il arrive que les journalistes inventent la réalité, comme ils l'ont fait avec les termes nouvelle économie (Maris 2002 : 119) et nouvelle ère économique (Shiller 2000(Shiller /2015.…”

Paradoxes in Turkey’s Syria policy: Analyzing the critical episode of agenda building

“…4 (2013): 524–539; Anabela Carvalho, “Media(ted) Discourse and Society: Rethinking the Framework of Critical Discourse Analysis,” Journalism Studies 9, no. 2 (2008): 161–177; Philip Hammond, Framing Post-Cold War Conflicts: The Media and International Intervention (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007); and Una Dirks, “Critical Discourse Analysis of the Iraq Conflict in the British and German ‘Quality’ Press,” Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 19 (2006): 101–123.…”