The Armenian Genocide in Letters to the Editor of The Irish Times

Selected by newspaper editors to keep specific topics current in the news, Letters Editor (LTE) have long intertwined with historical events, among which twentieth century Armenian genocide. At that time international humanitarian workers and political personalities made appeals reading public expressed their indignation for violence perpetrated civilians. Rarely, however, LTE been studied linguistic features. Since they were meet ideological agenda of newspaper’s readers time, recurrent strategies used achieve this? This contribution is part a more extensive research combining corpus linguistics discourse analysis study representation genocide news discourse.