first, fairclough has considered the concrete texts in a linguistic position, then identified discourses which is based on the text and finally describe their dependency to micro social theories. his purpose has been to aware consumer of media texts in critical language. every text leads readers towards an understanding of certain facts. the main concern of fairclough has been the identificatio...

Abstract This article analyses the official discourse of Chechen authorities and posits that it reflects government’s efforts as self-legitimation. investigation seeks to identify mechanisms exploited by regime boost self-legitimacy examining ‘News’ programme on state television channel ‘Grozny’, which, in authoritarian setting Chechnya, became mouthpiece a propagator discourse. To provide for ...

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) could be seen as a theory in qualitative more than in qualitative stud- ies. This might have led to difficulty in doing CDA. Accordingly, this study attempted to develop a quan- titative profile in the form of an analytic rubric. For this purpose, Fairclough’s model of CDA was select- ed as the research framework. The techniques used for structuring analy...

Using a critical discourse analytic model of translation criticism, the present study attempts to explore the effect of ideology and idiosyncrasy on the lexical choices in translation studies. The study employed a descriptive approach to answer two research questions: Is there any relationship between ideology and idiosyncratic features of translators' lexical choices? And if yes, can it be ana...