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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.