This control is usually demonstrated while reporting on others, particularly on powerless or marginalized groups.
Secondary discourse has being symbolically re-shaped along with ideas, values, positions, ideologies, and certain goals of those who are control the flow of information and values. Following the accounts of Foucault, Voloshinov and Fairclough, this paper claims that a demonstration of power could be measured through the hegemon’s ability to take over the primary discourses (original discourse) and give priority to the secondary one (reporting discourse).
Considering the power relations in each society and unstable equilibrium as a result of a struggle for power, this paper further claims that power lies in the hand of those who have the ability and means to create the messages and control the flow of information. Following the constructivist reason, it will highlight the active role of language used in media in creation and interpretation of our reality.
This work tends to contribute to the ongoing debate on the role of media language in setting and reshaping symbolic borders in societies characterized with the high level of plurality.
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