Content Details | NUML Online Research Repository

Title TEXT, INTER-TEXT AND CONTEXT: AN ANALYSIS OF PAKISTANI JOURNALISTIC DISCOURSE

Author(s) Ms. Najma Qayyum

Abstract ABSTRACT Title: Text, Inter-text and Context: An Analysis of Pakistani Journalistic Discourse This study was conducted to investigate how intertextuality permeates news reports. Drawing upon the tenets of critical discourse analysis, it was explored how pervasive nature of the phenomenon and interdiscursivity are exploited by the news report writers. It was also discovered how specific elements from different discourses are combined together in news reports that result in hybrid discourses. The research explored the functions that intertextuality performs through news reports. Five daily Pakistani newspapers were selected. All these newspapers are published in the English language. According to All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS), these five newspapers are the most popular and the most widely-read ones. This fact served as the rationale for selecting these newspapers. The study is delimited to news reports published in these newspapers from March 2013 to August 2013 in the backdrop of Elections 2013 in Pakistan. The selection of news reports was done through nonprobability or deliberate sampling method as the researcher deliberately chose the news reports related to the two major political rivals and contestants in the elections: the ExPrime Minister Nawaz Sharif, the then-Chairman of the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) and Imran Khan, the Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-Insaf (PTI). The researcher wanted to investigate how news report writers use apparently commonplace strategies that are hardly noticeable and hence subtly affect public opinion. The inquiry was mainly qualitative and the tenets of critical discourse analysis were employed for analyzing the data. By incorporating the principles of critical discourse analysis, it was explored how news report writers design and construct their discourse for creating layers of meanings and how the discourse produced by politicians gets manipulated at the hands of news report writers.

Type Thesis/Dissertation

Faculty Languages

Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2020-01-13

Subject English Linguistics

Publisher

Contributor(s)

Format

Identifier

Source

Relation

Coverage

Rights