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Critical Discourse Analysis of Selected Newspaper Articles Addressing the Chapel Hill Shooting Incident
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Abstract The present study critically investigates the single case media reporting of the Chapel Hill shooting incident in North Carolina, USA. Eight newspaper reports, including BBC, Fox News, Independent, The Telegraph, The New York Times, Huffington Post, and among which two from CNN were assessed, using ... view more
The present study critically investigates the single case media reporting of the Chapel Hill shooting incident in North Carolina, USA. Eight newspaper reports, including BBC, Fox News, Independent, The Telegraph, The New York Times, Huffington Post, and among which two from CNN were assessed, using the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach. At the explanation level, a social analysis was conducted to the order of discourse, which was connected to a specific social order to produce the final texts of the report. The findings of the study revealed that the reports were not objective. They were found to be linguistically biased as the incident was portrayed as an un-Islamophobic crime. These results also confirmed the revelations in other studies regarding the representation of Muslims by the Western media and the ‘elite racism’ ideology, which was followed in the production of reports.... view less
Classification
Impact Research, Recipient Research
Free Keywords
Agency; Chapel Hill; critical discourse analysis; ideology; modality; racism
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 21-34
Journal
Media Watch, 11 (2020) 1
ISSN
0976-0911
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0