SEQUESTERING AND RHETORIC: CDA ON NATURAL DISASTER IN PAKISTANIPRINT MEDIA DISCOURSE

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Huda Hameed Qureshi

Abstract

  This research is focused to find out language repertoire in media discourse which is using discursive stance in press statements and print media forsequestering and rhetoric. It has been seen that manipulative stance has madevaguer therole of discourse and media even in the broadcasting of a natural disasters like snow fall of Muree and Guliyat. This natural disaster has directed the opportunity to politicians to adopt different techniques and strategies in their statements in order to achieve hidden motives like culmination, reputation and power. In this way internal ideologies have forced them to shape various discursive strategies to seduce, tempt and manipulate readers/public .So in Pakistani print media the discursive agenda in the pressstatements isvisible as Cook, G. (2001) has said that discourse is deceitful and agencies send their messages  are encoded which can be decoded and interpreted with the help of Critical Discourse Analysis, so the present research will decode widely spread linguistic discoursed messages with this method in press statements.  This research is delimited on print media taking the statements from The Express newspaper dated 9/01/2022. It is focusing on twelvestatementsand these are taken randomly from the first page which isdirecting its roots more narrowly focusing on natural disaster of snowfall in print media. This research stands under the umbrella of qualitative approach. Finally the basic stance of this research in critical discourse analysis is, to expand and promote the understanding of hiddenlanguage stance and ideologies because with the help of discourse politicians and media both are trying to achieve their motives through persuasive techniques with the help of collusive stance.

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How to Cite
Huda Hameed Qureshi. (2022). SEQUESTERING AND RHETORIC: CDA ON NATURAL DISASTER IN PAKISTANIPRINT MEDIA DISCOURSE. Harf-O-Sukhan, 6(1), 12-22. Retrieved from https://harf-o-sukhan.com/index.php/Harf-o-sukhan/article/view/261