What is Critical Discourse Analysis?
1 2.2 The significance of the ‘new racism’ 2 2.3 The role of the media in the reproduction of racism 3 3. Analysis 4 3.1 Headlines 4 3.2 Local semantic structures 6 3.3 Semantic strategies 8 3.4 Style and rhetoric 9 3.5 Subjects and topics 10 3.6 Quotation patterns 11 3.7 The influence of the Press on its readers 12 4. Conclusions and evaluation 14 5. Bibliography 1. Introduction This paper is designed to examine Teun A. Van Dijk’s concept of Critical Discourse Analysis in view of racism in the Press. At first it is important to shortly introduce the concept of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) that has been created and discussed by Fowler, Van Dijk and Fairclough. Additionally, one has to define the special kind of racism that is conveyed in the newspapers, and how it succeeds in being almost imperceptible for the reader. Here, one also has to take into consideration in what way racism becomes pivotal concerning society and societal structures. The analysis, that adheres to Van Dijk’s
