Role of Concordance of Lexicon and Collocations in Indian Newspaper Headlines on Pulwama Crisis: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Authors

  • Muhammad Wasim PhD English Scholar, Department of English, Imperial College of Business Studies, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
  • Dr. Khalid Ahmed Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
  • Nadia Joiya Lecturer, Department of English, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47205/jdss.2023(4-IV)28

Keywords:

Collocation, Concordance, Identities, Ideological Representation, Perceptions, Semantic Devices

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyse critically media headlines of leading Indian e-papers during the crisis of Pulwama phase igniting from 14th of February to 31st of March 2019. The study has included five newspapers from India. The research has examined role of concordance of lexicon and collocations for angling news headlines. The research design is qualitative in approach. For the analysis of news headlines Fairclough’s 3-D model (1992) is employed to expose ideological representation through semantic devices (concordance and collocations). Theoretical framework includes selected features of Paul Chilton’s Model of Deictic Space Theory (2004) like, Proximization, and Wieczorek’s (2013) Clusivity to analyse the text. The results give deeper understanding of indian journalistic discourse that shows Concordance of use of words like terrorist/s, attack, JeM, dangerous and phrases like punishing Pakistan, threats of surgical strike, reflects the trend to be so grave and lethal.

Vol. 4 No. 4 (2023): October to December

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2023-11-07

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Wasim, M., Ahmed, K., & Joiya, N. (2023). Role of Concordance of Lexicon and Collocations in Indian Newspaper Headlines on Pulwama Crisis: A Critical Discourse Analysis. Journal of Development and Social Sciences, 4(4), 308–319. https://doi.org/10.47205/jdss.2023(4-IV)28

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Vol. 4 No. 4 (2023): October to December

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