An Investigation of Discourse Structure in The Media’s Portrayal of The Film “Lady of Heaven”

This research studies the interaction between language structures in mass media by examining discourse structure. It suggests various ways to analyze how language may be used to characterize people, places, and events in media discourse. This study will try to understand the dispute regarding the British film “The Lady of Heaven” because of the representation it created of religious characters and the events within its images. It intends to describe the structure of the discourse analysis using van Dijk's 2008 approach to analyze the macro, super, and microstructures in the selected article, which can explain how the author has constructed the text and how language is used. This study adopts a qualitative analysis of one item retrieved from the official website of the independent newspaper (article). The findings prove that while the author can express his opinions using his own words, the use of structures should be considered as one way of manipulating the opinions of the public. Such studies have the advantage of helping you make sense of the text's structure.