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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE OF APPROVAL ......................................................................................... i
STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP ..................................................................... ii
PREFACE ............................................................................................................. iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................. iv
ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................... vi
LIST OF TABLES ............................................................................................... ix
LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................. xi

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background

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1.2 Research Questions

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1.3 Aims of the Study


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1.4 Significance of Study

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1.5 Research Methodology

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1.6 Clarification of Key Terms

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1.7 Organization of Paper

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CHAPTER II: THEORITICAL FRAMEWORK

2.1 News Discourse in Its Definitions

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2.1.1 Difference between Discourse and Text

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2.1.2 News as Part of Media Discourse

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2.2 Critical Discourse Analysis: The In-depth Analysis of Discourse

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2.3 Principles of CDA: Discourse as Social Practices

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2.4 Discourse as Recontextualization of Social Practices

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2.5 Representing Social Actions

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2.6 News Discourse as the Analytical Field of Van Leeweun’s CDA

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2.7 Current Studies on CDA

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CHAPTER III: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Formulation of Problems

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3.2 Research Design

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3.3 Data Collection

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3.4 Data Analysis

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CHAPTER IV: FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
4.1 Findings


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4.1.1 Social Actors Represented on USA Today and Tripoli Post

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4.1.2 Actions and Reactions

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4.1.2.1 Material and Semiotic Actions

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4.1.2.2 Transactive and Nontransactive Material and Semiotic Actions

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4.1.2.3 Transactive Instrumental and Interactive Action


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4.1.3. Reactions: Cognitive, Affective and Perceptive

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4.1.3.1 Affective Reactions

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4.1.3.2 Perceptive Reactions

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4.1.3.3 Cognitive Reactions

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4.1.4 Transformations on Action and Reaction

4.1.4.1 Deactivation: Objectivation and Descriptivization

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4.1.4.2 De-agentialization: Eventuation, Existentialization,
and Naturalization

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4.1.4.3 Abstraction: Generalization and Distillation

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4.1.4.4 Overdetermination: Symbolization and Inversion

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4.1.5 Social Actions Attributed to US Alliances


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4.1.5.1 Social Actions Attributed to US Alliances on USA Today

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4.1.5.2 Social Actions Attributed to US Alliances on Tripoli Post

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ALLIANCES ON ONLINE USA TODAY AND THE TRIPOLI POST
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4.2 Discussions

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4.2.1 Social Actors on online USA Today and Tripoli Post

from Viewpoints of Social Actions

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4.2.2 The Distribution of the US Alliance’s Social Actions
and Their Transformations

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4.2.3 The Tendency of Objectivation and Abstraction
on US Alliances

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4.2.4 Media Discursive Strategy through Representation
of US Alliances on USA Today and Tripoli Post:
Legalization on War

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CHAPTER V: CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1 Conclusions

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5.2 Suggestions

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REFERENCES

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APPENDICES

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LIST OF TABLES

1. Table 2.1 Elements of Social Practices

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2. Table 3.3 The Initial Analysis

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3. Table 4.1 Source articles taken from online USA Today

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4. Table 4.2 Source articles taken from online Tripoli Post

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5. Table 4.3 Actions and reactions on USA Today’s articles

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6. Table 4.4 Actions and reactions on Tripoli Post’s articles

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7. Table 4.5 Materializations and Semioticizations
on USA Today’s articles

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8. Table 4.6 Materializations and Semioticizations
on Tripoli Post’s articles

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9. Table 4.7 Transactive and Nontransactive Actions
on USA Today’s articles

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10. Table 4.8 Transactive and Nontransactive Actions
on Tripoli Post’s articles

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11. Table 4.9 Transactive Instrumental and Interactive Actions
on USA Today’s articles

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12. Table 4.10 Transactive Instrumental and Interactive Actions
on USA Today’s articles

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13. Table 4.11 Affective Reactions on USA Today
and Tripoli Post’s articles

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14. Table 4.12 Perceptive Reactions on USA Today
and Tripoli Post’s articles

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15. Table 4.13 Cognitive Reactions on USA Today
and Tripoli Post’s articles

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16. Table 4.14 Objectivations and Descriptivizations
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on USA Today and Tripoli Post’s articles
17. Table 4.15 Deagentializations on USA Today and Tripoli Post

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18. Table 4.16 Generalizations and Distillations
on USA Today and Tripoli Post

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19. Table 4.17 Symbolizations and Inversions
on USA Today and Tripoli Post

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20. Table 4.18 Reactions Embedded to the US Alliances
on USA Today

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21. Table 4.19 Materializations and Semioticizations
Embedded to the US Alliances on USA Today

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22. Table 4.20 Transactive and Nontransactive Actions
Embedded to the US Alliances on USA Today

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23. Table 4.21 Transactive Actions Represented to the
US Alliances’ Social Actions on USA Today

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24. Table 4.22 Reactions Embedded to the US Alliances
on Tripoli Post

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25. Table 4.23 Actions Embedded to the US Alliances
on Tripoli Post

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26. Table 4.24 Transactive and Nontransactive Actions
Embedded to the US Alliances on Tripoli Post

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27. Table 4.25 Transactive Actions Embedded to the
US Alliances on Tripoli Post

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28. Table 4.26 Deactivation Represented to the US Alliances’
Social Actions

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29. Table 4.27 Deagentialization Represented to the US Alliances’
Social Actions

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30. Table 4.28 Abstraction Represented to the US Alliances’
Social Actions

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31. Table 4.29 Overdetermination Represented to the US Alliances’
Social Actions

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ALLIANCES ON ONLINE USA TODAY AND THE TRIPOLI POST
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LIST OF FIGURES

1. Figure 2.1 Influence of discourse on practice

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2. Figure 2.2 Social Actions Network

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3. Figure 3.1 Selected research corpus

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4. Figure 3.2 Detailed scheme on data analysis

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5. Figure 4.1 Objectivation and its forms

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6. Figure 4.2 Constitutions of an action that can be
abstracted through generalization

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7. Figure 4.3 Types of Social Action and Their
Transformations on USA Today and Tripoli Post

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ALLIANCES ON ONLINE USA TODAY AND THE TRIPOLI POST
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