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Publication details [#49885]

Izadi, Foad and Hakimeh Saghaye-Biria. 2007. A Discourse Analysis of Elite American Newspaper Editorials: The Case of Iran’s Nuclear Program. Journal of Communication Inquiry 31 (2) : 140–165.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | editorial | nuclear tone | nukespeak | representational structure

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Using Said’s Orientalism and van Dijk’s ideological square concept, this paper explores how three elite American newspapers editorials (from the The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal) cover Iran’s nuclear program from 1984 to 2004.