ANALYZING DISCOURSES: SOCIETY, NEWSPAPERS AND CHALLENGED PEOPLE’S RIGHTS AND POLICIES OF BANGLADESH

Abstract

More than 10% people of Bangladesh are challenged people. It is not small amount. But the media of Bangladesh is presented challenged people as helpless, ‘other’, ‘violent’, ‘animal like’, ‘mental’, ‘disability’ ‘burden for society’, ‘unnatural’ and so on. In our society challenged people are ignored very heartlessly. Though Bangladesh has so many laws, acts, policies, and rights on challenged people, newspapers here misrepresent them as a whole. The overall coverage of news media on challenged people is not positive. This study unfolds the existing discourses and tendencies about people with disabilities (challenged people) presented by media of Bangladesh especially national dailies with the help of thematic content analysis and critical discourse analysis (CDA). The paper found out some important points and themes in representing challenged people in the perspectives of the reality of society and culture of Bangladesh.