Strategies of Apparent Empathy and Polarization in Kemalistic Discourse

The paper analyzes the discursive strategies of apparent empathy and ideological polarization that were used to legitimize discrimination against covered female students in Republic Turkey. We approached this complex social problem from point view critical discourse analysis, which represents an interdisciplinary research area centered on interest researching manipulative use language. ban wearing headscarves universities Turkey was fruit Kemalist conception modernism hegemony established by elites. An important role preserving also played media, whose primary goal injustice protect order based asymmetric distribution power. They performed media through language within clearly recognizable strategies, shown analysis newspaper text is subject paper.