Recontextualization of the arguments of 'innocence' by a football club on Turkish newsprint media

Kökplnar Kaya E., Yaǧll E.

Text and Talk, 2023 (AHCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2023
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1515/text-2022-0048
  • Dergi Adı: Text and Talk
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, International Bibliography of Social Sciences, ComAbstracts, Communication & Mass Media Index, Communication Abstracts, Index Islamicus, Linguistic Bibliography, Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Sociological abstracts
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: critical discourse analysis, discourse historical approach, football discourse, media discourse, recontextualization, topoi
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

We explore the media representation of the involvement of Fenerbahçe, a football club in Türkiye, in the 2011 Turkish Sports Corruption Scandal. Specifically, the study focuses on the discursive construction of Fenerbahçe's 'innocence' and 'corruption' through the central arguments of Fenerbahçe's self-defense and how the newsprint media represents these arguments of innocence in Türkiye. The data consist of the council board speech of the club's president after his release, the front-page headlines, and the news reports of Turkish daily newspapers featuring the speech. In the study, adopting the critical discourse analysis framework, we discuss that the newspapers either recontextualize the innocence arguments or set them aside to pursue their ideological stances. Besides, our analysis reveals that the newspapers ultimately ignore Fenerbahçe's arguments about the existence of a secret criminal organization endeavoring to gain control of Fenerbahçe via match-fixing claims and the state via a civil coup.