Critical Discourse Analysis of RT news headlines on Venezuela’s post-coup crisis in 2019-2020
Critical Discourse Analysis of RT news headlines on Venezuela’s post-coup crisis in 2019-2020
Author(s): Ihor MatselyukhSubject(s): Media studies, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Stylistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo KUL
Keywords: CDA; headlines; presuppositions; implicatures; agency; bias;
Summary/Abstract: This article researches the biased content of the propagandistic channel RT through the prism of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). It attempts to uncover the linguistic means of creating biased content in RT headlines that cover the Venezuela’s post-coup crisis of 2019-2020. It offers a CDA approach to the systemic bias in the headlines of 375 news stories featured on one of the most tendentious webcasters, the Russian state news provider RT. The current CDA focuses on presuppositions and implicatures, back- and fore-grounding, agency, lexis, punctuation, and briefly on other figurative linguistic means in the headlines and traces their relative recurrence that might form a pattern.
Journal: Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW)
- Issue Year: 9/2023
- Issue No: 9
- Page Range: 95-111
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English