Spionage-Diskurs über Huawei in BILD: Die Analyse von Diskursverschränkungen

Abstract

The present Master's thesis investigates the entanglement of the discourse strands in the online editions of the Bild newspaper on the topic "Huawei's participation in the German 5G network" in the period from May 15, 2019 to December 6, 2019. The selection of the period concerns a socio-political relevance. Because US President Donald Trump signed the executive order against Huawei on May 15th. Link's work on Versuch über Normalismus serves as the basis for the analysis, arguing that the media can determine what is normal and what is not normal according to his criteria. An analysis of discourse entanglement, which is carried out through the keyword discourse analysis in this work. The fine analysis is carried out using a corpus linguistic analysis model. These two have joined together in such a way that they provide information about the argumentation strategy and linguistic features that appear relevant in the discourse about Huawei.