REFLECTION OF THATCHER'S POLICY IN THE CZECHOSLOVAK DAILY NEWSPAPER PRAVDA

Abstract

The paper examines depiction of Thatcher’s policy through the industrial dispute of The Miners’ Strike in the UK (1984 – 1985) as it is reproduced in selected Czechoslovak daily newspaper Pravda. The Critical Discourse Analysis of the analysed data tries to elucidate how a single news item was presented in the newspaper based on its ideological perspective. The dominant definition of the policy was primarily formulated by the authorities of the communist regime and thus, the press uncritically adopted and communicated that policy. I presuppose that the dominant definition at the same time contributed to a manipulated depiction of the Thatcher’s policy through Miners’ strike event.