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As language is not a transparent tool of conveying meaning from post structuralist perspective, media enjoys a power position in shaping the realities through discourse. With particular reference to Pakistan, media, in recent years, has attained a powerful position from where it establishes certain practices and is capable of influencing public opinion in the process of political representation. The speeches of prominent leaders of leading political parties have been selected to be reflected through leading newspapers of Pakistan. Those newspapers selected for representation are The Express Tribune,The News and Dawn. This study critically analyses lexical choices used in the news reports of the selected political speeches of prominent political leaders of Pakistan. Three angles of lexical items namely connotations, euphemism and metaphoric expressions were selected for the analysis of media reports. The theoretical framework surrounds the concept of power of discourse in shaping the realities. This research has identified specific patterns and meaningful tendencies in the media discourse when it deals with political speeches exclusively in Pakistani context. A significant difference in the selection of lexical choices is identified in the representation of different political leaders. Different newspapers adopt their preferred setting of lexical choice in the speech representation of various leaders.

Dr. Ayyaz Qadeer, Dr. Tehseen Zehra, Dr. Adnan Tahir. (2021) Role of Pakistani Media Discourse in Shaping the Public Perception through Linguistic Devices, Orient Research Journal of Social Sciences, Volume-06, Issue-1.
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