Muhammad Anisur Rahman Akanda
Critical Discourse Analysis Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Discourse Analysis in Language Studies Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism Media Studies and Communication Multilingual Education and Policy Media Discourse and Social Analysis Linguistics and Discourse Analysis Cultural and political discourse analysis Political Science Research and Education Communication Language and Linguistics Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory Philosophy Political Science and International Relations Sociology and Political Science

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Muhammad Anisur Rahman Akanda is a researcher in Critical Discourse Analysis, currently affiliated with Shanghai University in China. He holds a Ph.D. in Critical Discourse Analysis from Shanghai University. His research focuses on the intersection of language, ideology, and power, as exemplified in his work 'Ideology and Power in the Headlines: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Bangladesh-China Relations'. With 3 publications and 5 citations, his h-index stands at 1. He is also a fellow of an academic organization, contributing to the field of science and discourse analysis.

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Shanghai University

Ph.D • Critical Discourse Analysis

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Research

Ideology and Power in the Headlines: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Bangladesh-China Relations

Article July 27, 2020

Using the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this study aims to explore how Bangladesh’s news agency BSS (1975-2016) represents the relationship between Bangladesh and China. Within this framework, three methods are employed to collect data: (i) content analysis of the 41- year media coverage, (ii) interviews, and (iii) observations at the newsrooms. By examining 140 news headlines, this article shows how the BSS under government control represents China and Bangladesh-China relations. The news headline falls into macro and micro levels of analysis. The macro-level analysis focuses on the ownership and control factors of the BSS, while the micro-level analysis deals with the content analysis. The findings show that the BSS editor has concentrated more on diplomatic news items occurring in Dhaka than in Beijing, highly reported with government officials. Then this paper adopts the framework of CDA, which is mainly concerned with the relationship between language, ideology, and power. Utilizing Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar as a tool for CDA, this study aims to explore the ideological meanings in the news headline termed as a ‘micro story’: A pair of questions will answer how the subjects are historically represented through the BSS media discourse on the topic. Therefore, CDA has promoted the diplomatic relation between Bangladesh and China, established in 1975. This paper clearly explains how CDA generally reflects social practice, ideology, and power relations between Bangladesh and China at the time of reporting.