REFLECTION OF THATCHER'S POLICY IN THE CZECHOSLOVAK DAILY NEWSPAPER PRAVDA

Анотація

The paper examines depiction of Thatcher’s policy through the industrial dispute of
The Miners’ Strike in the UK (1984 – 1985) as it is reproduced in selected Czechoslovak
daily newspaper Pravda. The Critical Discourse Analysis of the analysed data tries to
elucidate how a single news item was presented in the newspaper based on its ideological
perspective. The dominant definition of the policy was primarily formulated by the
authorities of the communist regime and thus, the press uncritically adopted and
communicated that policy. I presuppose that the dominant definition at the same time
contributed to a manipulated depiction of the Thatcher’s policy through Miners’ strike
event.