Browsing by Subject "Critical discourse analysis"

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Discursive construction of Syrian refugees in shaping international public opinion: Turkey’s public diplomacy efforts
(Sage Publications, 2020-06) Özdora Akşak, Emel
This research focuses on the Turkish government’s communications with the international community with regard to Syrian refugees. I use the Discourse Historical Approach to reveal and compare the discursive strategies that the official Turkish news agency has used as part of its public diplomacy efforts in their mass communication efforts regarding Syrian refugees during the last 8 years. The results reveal how a humanitarian issue such as the plight of refugees might be employed to establish a government’s political position, affirm its involvement and influence public opinion about a conflict that exceeds national boundaries and has turned into a challenge for international dominance involving world superpowers. The topics highlighted in the Turkish news reports and the argumentations that these reports put forward reveal that the Turkish government is highly critical of the international community, especially Western powers, for not fulfilling their humanitarian responsibilities. This specific criticism from Turkey regarding its outsized role in hosting refugees has become a leverage point to claim a place in the decision table about the future of Syria.
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On the trace of young citizens: the political discourses, ideology and power relations in the children’s magazines of Gürbüz Türk Çocuğu and Sevgi Bir Kuş
(2019-09) Kara, Tuğba
This thesis inspects the reflections of the ideological aspects of a nation-state’s over childhood issue of the political powers of the early Republican era and the AKP government concerning two different periodicals called Gürbüz Türk Çocuğu and Sevgi Bir Kuş. This study argues that the selected children’s magazines produced literary texts influenced by the institutional policies of publishers, while they present the political ideology of the existing powers over childhood to the child reader directly or implicitly. The ideal childhood discourses, which were modified according to the changing political power of the period, were intended to be conveyed to the child reader by instrumentalizing the literature at the point of forming a national identity. Therefore, it is significant to examine the literary products in the children’s magazine published by the “Children’s Protection Agency”, one of the official instruments of the state, to see how the discourse of the power changed over time in the context of child policies and nation-state. Peter Hollindale’s critical theory concerning the children's literature and ideology constitutes the basic theoretical background of the thesis; and as a secondary source, I utilized the studies on children’s literature and the construction of national identities of states.