Critical discourse analysis of BBC political texts related to American and Mexican wall

الملخص EN

This study discusses the critical discourse analysis of some BBC political news regarding Donald Trump's wall of Mexico.

The researcher adopts a model proposed by Van Dijk's (2006d).

Ideological categories which are six are chosen within the strategies of the ideological field are used.

The categories consist of three main standards of discourse structure which are the meaning, the argumentation and rhetoric.

They all show an effective norms for discovering ways of manipulation.

According to the analysis, it can be understood that Trump's discourses contribute to the reproduction of domination.

This can be applied to those levels by concentrating on the ideological structures of positive self_presentation of "I" , "we", "me", and "us" and negative other_presentation of "they" and "them" as means of mind controlling and influence on audience