Critical Discourse Analysis of “Genocide Denial Bill” Presentation İn French Press: Le Monde and Le Figaro Press” Cover Image

Soykırımı İnkâr Yasa Tasarısı’nın Fransız Basınında Sunumunun Eleştirel Söylem Analizi: Le Monde ve Le Figaro Gazeteleri
Critical Discourse Analysis of “Genocide Denial Bill” Presentation İn French Press: Le Monde and Le Figaro Press”

Author(s): Canay Umunç
Subject(s): Media studies, Politics and communication, Evaluation research
Published by: Hitit Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü
Keywords: Genocide Armenian; Genocide Denial Bill; Intercultural communication; Press; Critical Discourse;

Summary/Abstract: Political powers use the media as the main tool for constructing its own ideological hegemony. Because media provides an optimal environment to dictate and impose ideologies prescribed by the dominant discourse. In this way, the active power in control of the masses make it indispensable for agenda setting, to change the agenda, from the perception of management to propaganda. Based on this interaction, power and authority often build its sovereignty through political discourse using media. At this point, critical discourse analysis emerges as a critical method Masnavis examines the discourse by emphasizing on contextual and perceptua lstatus. Indeed, it has been examined in this study, how autonomous ideologies were politicized and how dominant discourse is structured in news language on the news related to “Genocide Denial Bill” in two prominent French newspapers: Le Mondeand Le Figaro Press.

  • Issue Year: 7/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 491-511
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Turkish