Critical Discourse Analysis of election reporting in the international press: the case of an online article about the election of Netanyahu as Prime Minister in the Israeli government (2009).
Abstract
This paper provides a critical discourse analysis of UK press coverage of the election in the Israeli government (2009). It examines the relationships which may be said to exist between the levels of discourse identified as text, interactions and social practices, (Fairclough, 2001). Using Fairclough’s model (2001), this paper aims to examine the linguistic strategies employed in the text to discover the power relations within a discourse in a particular social context. Also it aims to examine these linguistic features that are employed in the text to convince the reader of the problematic selection of Netanyahu as PM of the Israeli government. The findings of this study suggest that news report on the Israeli elections 2009 are influenced by the political orientations of the BBC newspaper and also their liberal and conservative ideological stances.