Title: Imagination: The Making of Kurdish National Identity in the Kurdish Journalistic Discourse (1898-1914).
Author: Ekici Denis Kendal
Place of publication: England
Publisher: University of Exeter
Release date: 2015

By utilizing Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) methodology, this study explores the ideological function of language in the Kurdish journalistic discourse of the pre-WWI period (1898-1914). Informed by the CDA approach, the present study perceives language as a social practice that produces meanings and presumes a dialectical relationship between language and ideology in the construction of social realities, beliefs and identities. Hence, this study is situated within the wider scope of discourse analysis that focuses on the link between identity, discourse, power and ideology. [1]