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The Discourse of Turkish Press on 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections and the Inauguration of Donald Trump

The Discourse of Turkish Press on 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections and the Inauguration of Donald Trump

Rengim Sine Nazli, Kemal Avci
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 27
ISBN13: 9781522593126|ISBN10: 1522593128|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781522593133|EISBN13: 9781522593140
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9312-6.ch007
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Sine Nazli, Rengim, and Kemal Avci. "The Discourse of Turkish Press on 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections and the Inauguration of Donald Trump." Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media, edited by Floribert Patrick C. Endong, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 161-187. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9312-6.ch007

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Sine Nazli, R. & Avci, K. (2019). The Discourse of Turkish Press on 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections and the Inauguration of Donald Trump. In F. Endong (Ed.), Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media (pp. 161-187). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9312-6.ch007

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Sine Nazli, Rengim, and Kemal Avci. "The Discourse of Turkish Press on 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections and the Inauguration of Donald Trump." In Popular Representations of America in Non-American Media, edited by Floribert Patrick C. Endong, 161-187. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9312-6.ch007

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Abstract

Academic studies that form the basis of critical paradigm are collected around the theme of “ideological mediation of texts in the media.” These studies focus on the news reports as the most influential products of the media. The aforementioned studies emphasize that objectivity, which is the leading notion in traditional journalism, is shaped in favor of the involved parties, and therefore examine the discourse of the news with the aim of revealing these aspects by utilizing a number of methods. This study analyzed how the week following the U.S. Presidential election held on November 8, 2016 and won by Donald Trump; and the week after Trump's inauguration and taking of office after President Barack Obama on January 20, 2017 were portrayed in Turkish newspapers holding different ideological stances. The study utilized van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis Method. The front pages of newspapers with different ideological stances such as Sözcü, Sabah and Hürriyet newspapers were taken as the samples of the study. The study results pointed that newspapers shaped their news in line with their ideological expectations as was the case in Sabah newspaper sample. It was also observed that Trump was reported as the boss of the world, the richest US president, racist, Islamophobic and nationalist in other two newspapers included in the study.

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