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Title Depiction of Afghan Peace Process through semantic prosody: A corpus-based critical study of print media discourse

Author(s) Junaid Khan

Abstract Title: Depiction of Afghan Peace Process through Semantic Prosody: A Corpus-Based Critical Study of Print Media Discourse After over 20 years of an unsuccessful attempt to dislodge the Taliban from Afghanistan, the US administration was finally ready to sign a peace treaty with them on February 9, 2020. The linguistic portrayal of this historical event has received massive coverage in print media worldwide concerning their national interests and their engagement with the Afghan peace process. The current study is conducted to linguistically investigate the Afghan peace process covered in English newspapers by combining two methodological perspectives; corpus linguistics (CL) and critical discourse analysis (CDA). This study identified the construction of the Afghan peace process in the corpora compiled from the six selected English newspapers, such as The Dawn, The Express Tribune, The Afghanistan Times, The Kabul Times, The Washington Post, and The New York Times, published from February 29, 2020, to August 31, 2021, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the USA respectively. The researcher selected only two text categories from the selected newspapers, including opinion articles and editorials. Moreover, the researcher employed three corpus tools, i.e., keyword lists, collocation, and concordance, through the lexical software AntConc 4.2.0 to achieve the objectives of the study. Furthermore, the linguistic patterns in concordance lines in each corpus were examined using Stubbs' (1996) model of discourse prosody to examine the viewpoint of each newspaper. The findings of this study reveal that the newspapers of the selected countries depicted the same issue differently based on their interests and liabilities. More specifically, the same discourse patterns have been portrayed differently (negatively or positively) by each country's media. This study emphasises the need to investigate the language and discursive practices used in media discourse to extract public opinion on a certain political issue

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Publication Date 2023-10-13

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