teCoverage of British Queen’s Death in Domestic and Foreign Media (Case Studies: Fars and ISNA News Agencies and BBC Persian website)

In their role as news disseminators, the media are not a mirror reflection of events and the reality of the social and political world, but rather they are the creators of social and political realities and give existence to people's perception of the world around them. In preparing news, in addition to selecting data, they make it meaningful based on established formats. The main goal of the current research is to cover the death of the Queen of England in the domestic (FARS and ISNA) and foreign (BBC website) media. In order to achieve the main goal of the current research, theories of representation and framing and the method of critical discourse analysis with Van Dyck's approach have been used. From each of these media, two texts have been selected as samples, and after determining the positive and negative propositions, polarization of self and other, presupposition, association and insinuation in the texts, it was determined that the two main discourses in the context of the death of the Queen of England can be separated from each other.
First of all, any talk about Queen Elizabeth’s death refers to the role of the institution of the monarchy in England, so on one side of the spectrum are the foreign media, with an emphasis on BBC Persian, who consider the institution of the monarchy in England to be a ceremonial and powerless institution whose only function is to preserve the unity of the society and to be a symbol of the nation. In contrast to this discourse, there is the discourse of domestic news agencies such as FARS and ISNA, which do not consider the institution of the monarchy in England as ceremonial and regard it as the cause of all the crises and wars the British government has launched in different periods.