A critical discourse analysis of the news on north korean missile launches part 7

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Critical Discourse Analysis - defined as discourse analysis ‘with an attitude’ - is a usefultool in language use analysis contributing positively to the process of struggling for powerequality. Having been used successfully in discerning the relationship between language,power and ideology in a wide range of contexts, CDA is attracting growing interest of anumber of worldwide language researchers. It is so much hoped that this study may bringan illustration of the CDA concepts, helping clarify them by analyzing some news reportson North Korea missile launches - one of the hottest issues these days. The news reportsare chosen to be analyzed on the assumption that politics is the field where a struggle ofpower and ideology always exists in one way or another. In analyzing the news reports, weare trying to reveal what is coded in the language use, thus raising the awareness of howlanguage pictures reality and influences our perception of the world.

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