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Abstract Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a multidisciplinary field that explores the relationship between language, society, power and ideology. This study uses Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), specifically transitivity and modality, as an efficient model to analyze the selected data. This is attributed to the fact that both CDA and SFG share some common grounds as they are both deployed to detect the writer’s ideology. This study aims at examining how juvenile offenders are represented in written media discourse, particularly in journalistic discourse covering the time span form 2011 to 2013, to trace the positive and negative representation of the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’. In this regard, the newspaper articles are gathered from three British newspapers: The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent in an attempt to uncover the underlying ideologies that govern the writers’ attitudes, and which in turn direct the readers’ ideology. The results of this study indicate that transitivity and modality are powerful semantic concepts for the analysis of representation. Analyzing transitivity and modality choices helps construct the image of juvenile offenders in journalistic discourse and unveil the hidden ideologies of the writers. It is noted that the selected newspapers frequently criticize the ‘Other’ by negatively representing them, whilst they commonly support the ‘Self’ by highlighting its positive role. Thus, the ideological stance of the newspapers is an indicator of differences in power relations between participants in discourse. Key Words: Critical Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Grammar, transitivity, modality, positive and negative representation, juvenile offenders, media discourse. |