An investigation of sport media headlines from the point of view if critical discourse analysis: case study of football matches between Perspolis of Iran and Alhelal of Suadi

Media are mass communication devices which have prominent and important role in organizing public opinions. Newspaper is an affective media because of having addressee from different levels of society has kept his role in effecting on culture and society .Newspaper headlines because of offering an overall image of a piece of news , its relative importance and categorization, facilitate special comprehension for readers. This research studies some headlines of sport newspaper about football matches between Perspolis of Iran and Alhelal of Saudi with critical discourse analysis and on the bases of Norman Fairclough theoretical framework and model (1992). Main questions of this research are as follow: authors use which linguistic strategies in selecting a sport headlines and what ideology and social and cultural elements are covered in choosing headlines in 3 levels of text, interaction and social context. The findings of this research show that sort headlines have special style regarding linguistic devices and cultural and ideological inclination.