Title: Discourse, identity and legitimacy
Description: This book is a critical study of the ways that discourses of the (national) Self and Other are invoked and reflected in the reporting of a major international political conflict. Taking Iran’s nuclear programme as a case study, this book offers extensive textual analysis, comparative investigation and socio-political contextualisation of national identity in newspaper reporting. In addition to providing comprehensive accounts of theory and methodology in Critical Discourse Analysis, the book provides a valuable extensive discussion of journalistic practice in Iranian and British contexts, as well as offering insights into historical development of ‘discourses in place’ in Iran. Across four separate chapters, major national and influential newspapers from both countries are critically analysed in terms of their micro-linguistic and macro-discoursal content and strategies. The book is a vital source for interdisciplinary scholarship and will appeal to students and researchers across the critical social sciences, particularly those in linguistics, media and communication studies, journalism and international politics [from back cover].
Subjects: Rhetoric, Government and the press, Political  aspects, Journalism, Nuclear weapons, British newspapers, Iranian newspapers, Case studies, Mass media and language, Discourse analysis, Political aspects, Nationalism, History, English newspapers, Journalism, great britain, Iran, politics and government, Critical discourse analysis, Newspapers, Language, Kritische Diskursanalyse, Englisch, Zeitungssprache, Politische Berichterstattung, Politischer Konflikt, Atomare Rüstung
Places: Great Britain, Iran