Résumé:
This research dissertation critically analysed the discourse of Charlie Hebdo Attack 2015
which was regarded as a peak time for media coverage. We considered two mainstream
British newspapers namely The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and we explored how the
two papers represented the event within their cultural settings, how language use satisfied the
readership through particular ideological representation of Islam and Muslims as a terror
threat and whether such representation is in some way related to the political orientation of
the newspaper. The theoretical framework of this study was based on Halliday's transitivity
model but also it drew on from Fairclough's socio-cultural model of CDA to explain the
different ideologies in both newspapers. Analysis concerned forty four headlines and leads in
articles published on the newspapers' official online websites.
