Dr. Arshad Mehmood, Sabir Hussain Shah, Dr. Tayyaba Bashir & Tahir Qayyum
University of Kotli Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan
National and International issues always occupy prominent space in regional, national and global mainstream media and generally the foreign policy. Kashmir issue captured attention of the world community through electronic and print media on Discursive Event (DE), the abrogation of special position of Indian occupied Kashmir unilaterally through their Act 370 and section 35A from the constitution of India. This paper makes comparative analysis of the Indian, Pakistani, and International media in representation of nullification of Kashmir’s special position from Indian constitution in media between August 5, 2019 and September 5, 2019. The paper has immersed predominantly on Referential and Predicational strategies used in post removal discourse by using Discourse-Historical method within the broader Critical Discourse Analytic perspective. The findings of the study reveal how self-projected version and other de promoted strategies on selected issue worked through the media discourse to endorse ‘self-justified and self-clarity policy’ by both the regional atomic powers in the region.
The above abstract is a part of the article which was accepted at The Fourth Annual International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature (WWW.TLLL.IR), 1-2 February 2020, Ahwaz.
