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Qasim Abbas Dhayef
University of Babylon
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Linguistic construction of human trafficking in news reports on the Jeffrey Epstein case: A critical discourse analysis Asmaa Amjad Alwan; Qasim Abbas Dhayef
Jurnal Integrasi dan Harmoni Inovatif Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial Vol. 6 No. 1 (2026)
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Malang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17977/um063.v6.i1.2026.2

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The paper addresses the concept of human trafficking as a socially constructed problem, influenced by how news reports define exploitation, represent social actors, and convey patterns of control, responsibility, and power. Based on news coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein case, the study explores how human trafficking is linguistically constructed through lexical choices and discursive strategies, and how ideological meanings are framed in the selected data. The dataset consists of three news reports, with three extracts from each, selected for their relevance to human trafficking and their publication within the 2026 timeframe. The study employs a critical discourse analysis approach at two levels. At the micro level, it examines linguistic choices and discursive strategies, while at the macro level it analyzes ideological meanings, power relations, and framing practices in the reports. The findings at the micro level show that lexical choices and discursive strategies tend to represent victims as emotionally, legally, and coercively vulnerable, while institutions and elites are depicted through language emphasizing negligence, authority, or overwhelming power. At the macro level, the reports frame human trafficking as a structural problem sustained by institutional failure, bureaucratic shortcomings, and the influence of powerful actors, while also assigning responsibility and moral judgment. The study concludes that linguistic and ideological patterns are closely interconnected in constructing human trafficking in news discourse. Overall, the analysis demonstrates that trafficking is not portrayed as an isolated crime but as a phenomenon embedded in broader social and institutional structures, highlighting the role of media language in shaping public understanding of exploitation and its underlying conditions.
Emotional and ideological construction in Husseini Elegies: A critical discourse analysis Qasim Abbas Dhayef; Noura Khalid Al-Fatlawi
Jurnal Integrasi dan Harmoni Inovatif Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial Vol. 6 No. 2 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.17977/um063.v6.i2.2026.1

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This paper explores how exaggerated discourse is used to construct emotional intensity and ideological meaning in Hussaini elegies. Five extracts of elegies are analyzed in the paper based on the Critical Discourse Analysis, in particular the models of Norman Fairclough and Teun A. van Dijk, along with the theory of Appraisal. The results indicate that emotional expression is realised in a systematic way via somatic imagery, hyperbole, and cosmological metaphors, in which grief is embodied and universal instead of individual. The writings produce a polarized discursive level of morals, which implicitly sacrify martyrdom and declaim wrongdoing. The strategies of these languages work on the social practice level of ritual mourning to develop a sense of collective identity and recreate communal memory. The paper argues that exaggerated discourse is an ideological process which transforms previous trauma into intergenerational emotional heritage and it is by this process that cultural and religious meaning of Karbala is perpetuated.
Co-Authors Asmaa Amjad Alwan Noura Khalid Al-Fatlawi