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Title Print Media Coverage of the Kashmir Issue in Indian and Pakistani Newspapers after Abrogation of Article-370: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Author(s) Laiba Noor

Abstract Kashmir has been an enduring territorial dispute between Pakistan and India since 1947. Both countries try to portray the same issue in a way that gets their national stance on the issue international approval and recognition. Both countries lay claim to the valley of Kashmir and blame each other for instability in the valley. Since newspapers play a crucial role in the construction of political ideologies and their dissemination; therefore, newspapers of both countries portray the same issue differently to fit their political narrative. This research conducted an analysis of news editorials published in Daily Dawn, The Express Tribune, The Indian Express, and The Hindustan Times belonging to India and Pakistan. The data was retrieved through online database of newspapers through keyword search. The analysis focused on various linguistic features employed in the text and their connection with socio-cultural context. By analysing the linguistic features, the research has highlighted the political ideologies within the text and has studied how through linguistic features like nominalization, transitivity, rhetorical devices, emotive lexical choices, modality, and intertextuality, the newspapers build narratives of national importance and ideology. To study the media discourse in Kashmir conflict and to highlight the narratives and hidden ideologies, Norman Fairclough's 3D model was employed because of its emphasis on textual features and socio-cultural context. The research concluded that through employing a range of linguistic features the Indian newspapers construct a narrative that favours India and shows India as the rightful owner of Kashmir, whereas Pakistan is shown as an occupier and a terrorist state. On the contrary, Pakistani newspapers depicted India as an occupier that is committing gross human rights violations and Kashmir belongs to Pakistan and not to India. This comparison revealed that both stakeholders in the Kashmir dispute manipulate the language to present themselves in a positive light and the other in a negative light. Moreover, it reveals how language plays a major role in construction of ideologies in issues of national importance.

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Language English

Publication Date 2025-02-07

Subject English Literature

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