An Analysis of Urdu and English Editorial Coverage of the 2007 Emergency from Pakistani Newspapers
Through studying editorials, this thesis seeks to understand to what degree newspapers actually heeded the new media law. To analyze the editorials, I use an approach within sociolinguistics called Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). CDA posits that text and context mirror each other. A society's socio-economics, political hierarchy, religion, values, and ideology will be apparent in the text through grammar, tone, lexicon, and style. Given the context of the Emergency, I wanted to understand how government attempts to censor would manifest in the text.This aspect of the editorial makes predictions and answers the question aWhat will happen?a Additionally, the Recommendations hold the strongest tone of morality, for they answer the question aWhat should be done?a The advice laid out inanbsp;...
| Title | : | An Analysis of Urdu and English Editorial Coverage of the 2007 Emergency from Pakistani Newspapers |
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| Publisher | : | ProQuest - 2008 |
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