Media is at the heart of human life

1 -Vocabulary of judgment:
- ‘ regime’ for ‘government’ or ‘murder’ for‘ killing.’

2 - Referring to a country by name or by its inhabitants.
- Spain complained to Russia/ the Russians
- People of X country/ we OR our.

3- Grammatical choices
(e.g. passivisation and nominalisation) are less apparent without linguistic analysis.
a- Passivisation: the favoring of passive sentences over active ones .(e.g. Five children were killed in the air attack vs. the pilot killed five children).

b- Nominalisation :when actions are referred to by nouns as if they, rather than the people doing them, were the doers (subjects) .
For example, saying ‘Genetic modification is a powerful/ dangerous technique’ instead of ‘Researchers who modify genes have a great deal of power .’

CDA
Definition: Functional description of the linguistic choices that a person / organisation
makes to construct a text.
It is also interested in discovering how X is represented in Y source.

اهم النقاط بالمحاضرة الثامنة اشوفها مهمة طبعا بعد مذاكره المحاضره كاملة