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Communicating ideas/news is the primary function of language. However, language does not usually fulfill this as it is expected to. To Dellinger (1995, p. 3) language, “can never appear by itself-it always appears as the representative of a system of linguistic terms, which themselves realize discursive and ideological system.” The present study, analyzing sports articles, aims at investigating the nature and importance of discourse in representing the desired players/ or teams. In other words, it is to examine the ways in which different teams are discursively constructed. More specifically, it shows how ‘our’ team versus ‘other’ (rival) team is shaped discursively. To do this, Hodge and Kress' (1996) model for Critical Discourse Analysis provides the framework with which the following texts have been approached. Four sport extracts, selected from two different issues of two different sport editorials, comprised the corpus of the study. The texts are analyzed with regard to three important properties of texts, i.e., grammar (with regard to two properties: syntagmatic models and transformations), vocabulary (functioning as adjectives, adverbs, and verbs, with their ideological significance), and modality (the degree of authority and certainty of an utterance). The study has revealed how the reporters, while apparently providing the readers with the information about the matches and important events, represent ‘ours’ and ‘others’ in the selected texts  the way they like and, thereby, influence the ideology of the reader.  

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دیدگاه "تجزیه و تحلیل انتقادی کلام " نسبت به زبان یک دیدگاه سیاسی و تحلیل گرایانه می باشد و با نقش ایدئولوژی و ارتباطات قدرت و تسلط در جامعه، نابرابری اجتماعی که از طریق کلام بوجود می آید، تبعیض نژادی ، تبعیض جنسی و به طور کلی تبعیض سرو کاردارد. تحقیق حاضر با استفاده از مرسوم ترین و مقبول ترین روش تجزیه و تحلیل انتقادی کلام به تجزیه و تحلیل ساختار کلامی سخنرانیهای انتخاباتی نامزدهای دموکرات ریاست جمهوری آمریکا--هیلاری کلینتون و بارک اوباما--در سال 2008 می پردازد. هدف این مطالعه یافتن نوعی ایدئو لوژی در صحبتهای این نامزدها می باشد. در این راستااز الگوی تجزیه و تحلیل کلام هاج و کرس (1996) استفاده شده است و متن سخنرانی ها برای یافتن نشانه هایی از جنسیت و نژاد با یکدیگر مقایسه شد. از میان 100 متن سخنرانی این دو نفر، 50 متن بصورت تصادفی انتخاب گردیدند. نتایج تحقیق نشان داد که ویژگیهای کلامی صحبتهای این دو نامزد انتخاباتی تحت تأثیر نژاد و جنسیت آنها بوده است.

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This paper takes a critical look at the news reports of the Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia on Mina stampede. Previous studies have indicated that media discourse contributes to public opinion and ideology. Little, however, has been mentioned on how variation in media discourse affects the process. This study analyzed 24 news reports from the two countries from 24 to 31 September 2015 using the components of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The results indicate differences in the reports from the two countries in using variation patterns which in turn have the potential of changing and monitoring readers` ideologies through influencing their opinions on the nature of power relations and interactional structures. The paper tries to contribute to the area of research on media discourse and ideology construction by arguing that discourse variation has not been sufficiently theorized. An attempt will also be made to offer a tentative theorization of such variation