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Thesis Critical Discourse Analysis of Turkish Newspapers Published in English(2015) Durmuş, SerapToday’s communication technologies has maximised communication speed. This huge development in communication in international arena also paved way for the emergence of a great amount of translation need and market. Media has been among the institutions which needs this translation need most. As it is the translation of news texts for media, such institutions followed a function oriented approach to translations. That is to say, while translating a news text into any other language, the news translator or the journalist must keep the purpose of the source text, which is to create an intended effect on source language readers, in the target text: to create an intended effect on the target language reader. This ‘intended effect’ of news texts has attracted the attention of discourse analysis. Thus, critical discourse analysis methods have been developed in order to explicate the ideological elements imbedded in news texts. In other words, Critical Discourse Analysis is a research method which searches for how social phenomena such as power relations, moral values, ideologies and identity definitions are reflected on individuals and social orders through linguistic structures. Determining how and to what extent these power relations, moral values, ideologies and social phenomena take place in news texts is the purpose of this study. To this end, Teun A. van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis model is taken as basis for this study as it allows a detailed analysis of news texts. News texts on ‘Operation Shah – Euphrates’ dated 02.23.2015 in Turkish newspapers published in English are selected as sample texts for analysis. Although the newspapers published in English are taken as the main analysis material, original texts in newspapers published in Turkish are also included to give an idea about the transfer of political language with its intended messages. At the end of the analysis, it has been observed that the news texts of Hürriyet Daily News, Today’s Zaman and Daily Sabah, of which texts are analysed, involve some ideological elements in their news texts. Moreover, the Turkish versions of these newspapers, Hürriyet, Zaman and Sabah are also observed to involve the same ideological elements, besides intensive national connotations. Consequently, it has been observed that newspapers utilise news texts to reproduce and popularise their own ideologies on a national scale, and sustained the same attitude in their English versions which address non-Turkish readers around the world.
