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6 - “The Situation on the Korean Peninsula”

Voice of America and China Radio International on China and the USA about the North Korean Conflict

from Part II - Electronic Media and Online Discourses of Conflict

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2022

By
Valerie A. Cooper
Edited by
Innocent Chiluwa
Innocent Chiluwa
Affiliation:
Covenant University, Nigeria
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Summary

North Korea has remained a contentious news topic in recent decades, yet the portrayal of the country and its actions changes drastically depending on news sources. This research utilizes content analysis and critical discourse analysis to show how the Voice of America and China Radio International thematically and linguistically discuss North Korea’s threats of a nuclear strike and subsequent test-firing of missiles in March 2016. The results reveal that these government-sponsored media outlets use similar linguistic techniques to assign or avoid blame in reference to North Korea – and to China and the United States. This research is part of a larger project on critical discourse studies of state-sponsored radio outlets.

Keywords

public diplomacyCritical Discourse Analysiscorpus linguisticsmedia discoursecomparative approachChina Radio InternationalVoice of AmericaNorth Korea
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Discourse, Media, and Conflict
Examining War and Resolution in the News
 , pp. 140 - 161
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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