A Comparative Analysis of News Structure for Two War Commentaries

Analysis of News Structure for Two War Commentaries

Authors

  • Tamkeen Zehra Higher Education Commission
  • Zafar Ullah Shaheen Higher Education Commission
  • Huma Batool Higher Education Commission

Keywords:

Macrostructure, Macro-propositions, Relevance structure, Ideological content, War commentaries, News reports

Abstract

CDA recognizes war reports to be
lacking in objectivity and reflective of
the ideologies reporting agencies to
subscribe. This paper demonstrates
how Van Dijk‘s framework for
macrostructural analysis can be used to
unpack the ideological content of news
items by examining their content and
structure for a partiality of focus. Data
consists of two news commentaries on
the war in Yemen, taken from the
online news portals. Juxtaposing the
macrostructures of the two articles, a
comparison yields that the two
commentaries take widely divergent
positions on the war. Furthermore, a
relevance structure analysis reveals
implicit assumptions constructed into
the discourse which leads the reader to
make the intended interpretations

Published

2020-04-27

How to Cite

Zehra, T., Shaheen, Z. U., & Huma Batool, H. B. (2020). A Comparative Analysis of News Structure for Two War Commentaries: Analysis of News Structure for Two War Commentaries. Erevna: Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 1(2), 07-21. Retrieved from https://journals.au.edu.pk/ojserevna/index.php/erevna/article/view/39