MEDIA, IDEOLOGY, AND NUCLEAR DISCOURSE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVES IN PAKISTANI AND INDIAN PRINT MEDIA

Abstract

The current study's goal is to examine the editorial of the Dawn and Times of India regarding the nuclear arms race in South Asia through critical discourse analysis. This research study also examines how the "nuclear arms race in south Asia" is explained by critically analyzing the editorials published in The Times of India and Dawn between July 2015 and July 2016. Van Dijk's framework is used in this study as the foundation for the analysis. As such, it is a planned discourse whose main goal is to persuade listeners to do particular things in order to forward the author's ideological viewpoint. The social, cognitive, and discursive domains are the three angles from which Van Dijk manipulation is examined. The researcher uses Van Dijk's model, an interdisciplinary perspective on ideology, as a foundation for the perpetuation of racist and chauvinistic ethnic prejudices in the compiled corpus of editorials. The study's objective is to identify the editorial coverage of "Nuclearization in South Asia" with particular reference to the editorial coverage of The Times of India and The Dawn. The Times of India and The Dawn's stance on India and Pakistan's nuclear missile tests is also examined in the study. The newspapers concur that signing the CTBT is a good idea. Concerns of a nuclear arms race in the area are expressed in the publications. The editorial coverage of "Nuclearization in South Asia" was the focus of an analysis of the similarities and contrasts between The Times of India and The Dawn. According to the survey, the nuclear race in the region worries Pakistani and Indian print media. It also comes to the conclusion that the elite press not only steers or formulates foreign policy, but also comments on occurrences.