Keyness for Revelation of Self and Other Representation in Kurdish National Identity Construction

The presentation of Self and Other as the basis inclusion exclusion strategies, which is core ideologically formation national identity, has been examined using various branches CDA. This paper demonstrates that keyness technique combined with concordance can reveal ideology behind representation in identity construction relying on discourse-historical approach (Wodak et al. 2009) a theoretical basis. Accordingly, four discursive strategies signal Other: constructive perpetuation transformation dismantle are explored. As methodology, six-step outline proposed by Subtirelu Baker (2018) was followed. A corpus compiled data from two focus group interviews. For interviews, ten participants were recruited purposefully postgraduate students University Utara Malaysia. study how Kurds depict their discourses, only Kurdish reached. seeks to contribute body knowledge linguistic analysis revelation through co-text intertext. findings display emphasize ingroup sameness sharply distinguish themselves Other. However, they intend confer shade vagueness other depersonalizing institutionalizing. Through informants rely primarily dismantling strategies.