Discussion and Conclusion

Abstract

As discussed earlier, the particular version of CDA that I have adopted in this study enables analysis of media discourse at three levels: discourse practices, text, and sociocultural context. The previous four chapters were devoted to the first and second levels of analysis. My analyses at these two levels have described and interpreted the communicative events and discursive constructions facilitated by KTV and the Internet. This has enabled me to show how and out of what Kurdish national identities are constructed, and who constructs them. In this chapter, I attend to the third level of analysis, the explanation of identity discursive constructs in light of the sociocultural and political contexts that bear upon these discourse formations. At this level of analysis, I attempt to explain why Kurdish identities are constructed the way they are and what the implications of these constructions might be. In addition to my sociocultural and political analysis of identity discursive constructs on KTV and the Internet, I will briefly discuss some research implications based on the findings of this study.