Національна академія керівних кадрів культури і мистецтв
Abstract
Abstract. This study was mainly concerned with corpus analysis of the news gathered from Tehran Times, an international English newspaper of Iran, in 2017 regarding the officials commenting in water resource management issues in Iran. A corpus of 15 (above 3000 words) news pieces selected according to the content and topic was analyzed. The news were classified under officials' concern, their criticism the past and current plans and calling for attention, and their hopelessness. All in all, the news show a dark hopeless future of water resource in Iran.Keyword: News value, water resource, ideology, discourse analysis
