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标题：Positioning Strategies in Iranian vs. Western Media Discourse: A Comparative Study of Editorials on Syria Crisis
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作者：Fatemeh Mahdavirad ; Fatemeh Mokhtari
期刊名称：IJ-ELTS
印刷版ISSN：2308-5460
出版年度：2019
卷号：7
期号：3
页码：25-35
语种：English
出版社：Iqra Academic Publications Pvt Ltd.
摘要：The present study aimed to examine the editorials of Iranian vs. Western media coverage of Syria crisis in order to reveal how the writers of journalistic texts employ various discoursal strategies to produce or reproduce the same issue differently and consequently manipulate the thoughts of the readers. Working within the framework of van Dijk (2000) and concentrating on two prominent newspapers, namely, Tehran Times Daily and New York Times, representing the Iranian and American media discourse, respectively, the present study investigated a set of editorials developed to discuss different aspects of Syria crisis. The critical analysis of the texts under investigation indicated a close relationship between language and ideology and the findings revealed that different discoursal strategies, including compassion, disclaimer, implication, national self-glorification, polarization, vagueness, and negative lexicalization are employed differently by editors to create or recreate specific ideologies in diverse sociopolitical settings. The implications of the study for language teaching and learning, and the applications of the findings in journalism studies are explained.