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A critical discourse analysis of the news on north korean missile launches
ABSTRACTCritical Discourse Analysis - defined as discourse analysis ‘with an attitude’ - is a useful tool in language use analysis contributing positively to the process of struggling for power equality. Having been used successfully in discerning the relationship between language, power and ideology in a wide range of contexts, CDA is attracting growing interest of a number of worldwide language researchers. It is so much hoped that this study may bring an illustration of the CDA concepts, helping clarify them by analyzing some news reports on North Korea missile launches - one of the hottest issues these days. The news reports are chosen to be analyzed on the assumption that politics is the field where a struggle of power and ideology always exists in one way or another. In analyzing the news reports, we are trying to reveal what is coded in the language use, thus raising the awareness of how language pictures reality and influences our perception of the world. i . ABSTRACTCritical Discourse Analysis - defined as discourse analysis ‘with an attitude’ - is a useful tool in language use analysis contributing. bring an illustration of the CDA concepts, helping clarify them by analyzing some news reports on North Korea missile launches - one of the hottest issues these