A Critical Discourse Analysis on Media Excerpts

As narrative discourses and discursive thematic frameworks on social issues in media can provide us with an insight into how different understandings and perspectives serve to construct different presentations of social actors, social events as well as social relations and conflicts, it seems necessary to take them into more serious considerations. To this end, the present study was an attempt to have a critical discourse analysis on two papers published on “attack to Ghaza”. Through a deep media discourse analysis, it was found that there is a pattern of who is speaking and in what way in mass media the meaning is constructed by journalistic conventions as well as by social norms, and by rules that in part are set by a political regime. It was revealed that conventions play a strong role as we apply a representation analysis method