Linguistic and Socio-semantic Features and the Representation of Social Actors in Press Texts

The goal of this article is to demystify the press texts and discover their hidden layers of meaning in the framework of critical discourse analysis. To do so، using socio-semantic features of Van Leeuwen''s model (1996)، 40 numbers of four Iranian Persian publications of a two–month period، from July 22 to September 21، 2011 were studied qualitatively. The data analysis results indicated that the ideology dominating the minds of writers and groups is reflected in the text using discursive features as personalization، impersonalization، activation، backgrounding، etc.، and the linguistic realization of discursive structures is performed using linguistic structures as nominalization، pre-modifiers، active versus passive structures، coordination، etc. in the texts. Also there is a dialectic relationship between discursive structures and ideology، which can be determined by studying these structures in the texts and social institutions.