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The Representation of The Iranian Online News Coverage on The Iraqi Parliamentary Election 2021: A Critical Discourse Analysis

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Wadi Rahi Radhi Hassan,Wassan Noori Fadhil

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In this thesis, the researcher surveys the linguistic strategies that disclose the ideology, bias and power relatives in conveying some news reports regarding the Iranian newspaper “Tehran Times” online news coverage on the Iraqi parliamentary election 2021within the perspective of critical discourse analysis and how this newspaper, which is transcribed by nonnative speakers, uses different linguistic strategies to satisfy the readers with its ideology.So as to attain the purposes of the study, three questions are presented by the researcher in this study: 1 -What linguistic strategies does Iranian newspaper “Tehran Times” utilize in representing the Iraqi parliamentary election 2021? 2- How does the language of the Iranian newspaper disclose the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran? 3- To what extent the Iranian newspaper "Tehran Times” "is biased, impartial or objective in representing the news on the Iraqi parliamentary election that occurred in 10th of October, 2021?The researcher utilizes van Dijk's (2002) model of ideological square to analyze the data and van Dijk (1991) to analyze theme.The results of this study show that the most common linguistic techniques employed in "Tehran Times" reports differ noticeably from one another

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