GAZETE SÖYLEMINDE GEREKÇELENDIRME
ARGUMENTATION THEORY IN JOURNALISTIC DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: The first and fundamental aim of the newspapers is to inform, enlighten and impart readers. While carrying out these principal functions, the newspapers sometimes stay far away from being objective and impartial depending upon their worldviews, and therefore publish news subjectively. This can be seen on the ordering of the news front pages and the headlines of the newspapers. This study aims at tackling the prime minister of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan‟s controversial speech dated May 27, 2012 about abortion and caesarean section and the news protesting his speech by showing how the media represented all this polemic on June 4, 2012 through the analyses of the various types of argumentation. This study starts with the justification types proposed by Christian Plantin, one of the most famous theoreticians of the argumentation theory, and proceeds to delve into exemplifying them in the corpus of the texts. As the corpus consists of the media texts, the theoretical background is based on discourse analyses of linguists such as Charadeau, Maingueneau, Burger, and their publications. The initial step is to dwell on the question of “what is the media discourse?

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