FAISALABAD CAMPUS

Subject: Discourse Analysis

Teacher: Dr. Adnan Tahir
Department: Applied Liinguistics
Mphil 2nd Semester
Submitted By: Fasiha nazir ,Ume laila
Critical discourse analysis: on
Newspapers headlines and examine the two newspapers.

Introduction:
Critical Discourse Analysis(CDA) is a field that is concerned with studying and
analyzing written and spoken texts to reveal the discursive sources of power,
dominance, inequality and bias. It examines how these discursive sources are
maintained and reproduced within specific social, political and historical
contexts(van Dijk 1998).
Fairclough (1993) defines CDA as discourse analysis which aims to explore often
opaque relationships of causality and determination between (a) discursive
practices, events and texts, and (b) wider social and cultural structures, relations
and processes; to investigate how such practices, events and texts arise out of and
are ideologically shaped by relations of power and struggles over power; and to
explore how the opacity of these relationships between discourse and society is
itself a factor securing power and hegemony

Today we're living within the world of fast communication in which all social
occasions emerge as public thru distinctive resources such as media and other
technological means. In truth media performs a key position in transforming easy
social events inside the shape of news and maximum of the time it manipulates
statistics in keeping with its very own interest. Central to news is the language
through which social activities are described and now- a -days language isn't
considered as a easy manner of interpreting fact alternatively it constructs fact
(Taiwoo, 2007).
News papers are taken into consideration as a sturdy mean of supplying social and
national troubles in terms of their own ideological perspectives. News headlines
are maximum critical a part of newspapers as they provide a short mode of data
.The consciousness of the current study is news headlines as they are vital in
building ideologies of masses
Research Objectives:
• the principle subject of the study is to focus on the differences within the
information illustration of two local media with special connection with their
ideological perspectives.
• How two different print media represents the distinct ideologies of each
newspaper headlines.

Research questions
I) to what extant ideologies constitute through media text?
ii) How do the two different print media present the identical information item
differently with recognize to their very own ideological perspectives?
Problem statement:
Problem statement of these studies is to search out down the representation of two
distinct newspapers’ headlines.
Significance of the research:
The current look at will provide to developing a clear information of the hidden
ideologies in apparently seeming simple text for the newspaper readers. The have a
look at will help destiny researchers to explore the significance of newspaper
headlines so that it will discover how it impacts the ideologies of loads and
constructs truth in social and political context.