Abstract
As language is not a transparent tool of conveying meaning from post structuralist
perspective, media enjoys a power position in shaping the realities through discourse.
With particular reference to Pakistan, media, in recent years, has attained a powerful
position from where it establishes certain practices and is capable of influencing
public opinion in the process of political representation. The speeches of prominent
leaders of leading political parties have been selected to be reflected through leading
newspapers of Pakistan. Those newspapers selected for representation are The
Express Tribune,The News and Dawn. This study critically analyses lexical choices
used in the news reports of the selected political speeches of prominent political
leaders of Pakistan. Three angles of lexical items namely connotations, euphemism
and metaphoric expressions were selected for the analysis of media reports. The
theoretical framework surrounds the concept of power of discourse in shaping the
realities. This research has identified specific patterns and meaningful tendencies in
the media discourse when it deals with political speeches exclusively in Pakistani
context. A significant difference in the selection of lexical choices is identified in the
representation of different political leaders. Different newspapers adopt their
preferred setting of lexical choice in the speech representation of various leaders.
Dr. Ayyaz Qadeer, Dr. Tehseen Zehra, Dr. Adnan Tahir. (2021) Role of Pakistani Media Discourse in Shaping the Public Perception through Linguistic Devices, Orient Research Journal of Social Sciences, Volume-06, Issue-1.
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