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:: Volume 11, Issue 1 (3-2008) ::
2008, 11(1): 115-142 Back to browse issues page
A discursive representation of the winner and loser: the case of sports reports
Mohammad Rahimi , Ehya Amal Saleh , Mahbubeh Saadat
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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.
Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis, Sports reports, Language ideology, Soccer
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Published: 2008/03/15
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Rahimi M, Amal Saleh E, Saadat M. A discursive representation of the winner and loser: the case of sports reports. Journal title 2008; 11 (1) :115-142
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Volume 11, Issue 1 (3-2008) Back to browse issues page
Iranian Journal of Applied Linguistics
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