Affective intensities of polarization: the making of the Islamist/secularist divide through articulations of news media in Turkey.
This study examines discursive articulations in mainstream news media in Turkey, through which the Islamist/secularist divide is imagined. Building upon discourse-theoretical analysis and affect theory, the study states that news media become the ultimate domain in which polarization is fuelled by a...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 20; no. 6; pp. 700 - 717 |
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Nov2023
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