• Elham Bahramzadeh

  Author

• Shokofeh Vakili

  Author

The present study aims at exploring the different ways in which the
assassination of five Iranian nuclear scientists has been reported in two American
and Israeli newspapers. Drawing on Van Dijk who considers ideological discourse
analysis as a specific type of socio-cognitive analysis and Wodak's discourse
historical approach to the study of discourse, the present study attempts to show the
significant role played by certain discursive strategies in the construction of ideology.
The findings revealed that The New York Times and Y-net have reported the events
similarly each employing discursive strategies specifically the strategy of positive
self-presentation and negative other-presentation as the most prominent strategy
constructed particular ideologies in their accounts of the news events reported.

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