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Title Linguistic Postioning of the Kashmir Issue in pakistani, Idian, and American Media Discourse: A corpus assisted Critical Discourse Analysis

Author(s) FAISAL FAROOQ

Abstract Title: Linguistic Positioning of the Kashmir Issue in Pakistani, Indian, and American Media Discourse: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis Since both India and Pakistan gained independence in 1947, the Kashmir issue has been at the centre of a territorial dispute between the two nations. This study intends to investigate how the print media has projected the Kashmir issue as it has been portrayed in editorials and articles. For this purpose, the corpus-based approach is used to analyse editorials and articles from Pakistani, Indian, and American newspapers from August 5, 2019, to December 31, 2021. The research compares how the Kashmir issue is presented in the three nations' newspapers by closely examining lexical items. Thus, three corpora totaling 169,680 words are created based on newspaper editorials and articles in three countries. The newspaper editorials and articles are from renowned Pakistani, Indian and American press outlets. The Baker (2008) model of concordance analysis of lexical items and the Critical Discourse Analysis methodology proposed by van Dijk (2004) serve as the theoretical framework for the study. A software tool like Antconc is used to analyse the data. According to the results, Pakistani data was more frequent than the American and Indian data. The findings reveal that three countries' publications presented Kashmir as their property and used various lexical items depending on national interests. The three principles of Van Dijk (2004) are described by the three corpora in different perspectives, i.e., social power abuse, domination and inequality. Pakistani media blame India for social power abuse, domination and unequal treatment of Kashmiris, while Indian media blame Pakistan for all these. America, the neutral, somehow balances the situation but fails to solve the issue according to UN security resolutions. Additionally, the results demonstrated that the keyword 'Kashmir' has the highest frequency in all corpora. In order to obtain a more thorough outcome, articles 370 and 35A should be quantitatively investigated in the valley of Kashmir to get a more accurate perception of the Kashmiris.

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Publication Date 2023-10-13

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