@article{article_328521, title={THE CONSTRUCTION OF ‘RICH’ AND ‘POOR’ IN THE INTERFACE OF LINGUISTIC CODES AND SIGNS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF A TURKISH TELEVISION SERIES}, journal={Istanbul Journal of Sociological Studies}, pages={43–66}, year={2017}, url={https://izlik.org/JA43KN86EX}, author={Kökpınar Kaya, Emel}, keywords={Critical Discourse Analysis,simulations,mental models,sign,linguistic code}, abstract={<p>By a critical discourse analysis of the Turkish television series Adını Feriha Koydum, this study basically focuses on the signs of ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ that the series holds. In addition, the study aims at explaining the construction of the social class becoming open to the society and the individuals through the series with the help of media practices, discourse and social cognition. Besides, it endeavours to examine how signs and linguistic codes which constitute these signs construct the concepts of ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ and to evaluate how the discourses existing through these signs and building discourses of class discrimination create mental models. In this frame, the study depends on the principles and approaches of Critical Discourse Analysis and the simulations proposed by Baudrillard. The study demonstrates that the ‘rich’ and ‘poor’ mental models are constructed through the signs like car, mobile phone, household goods and clothes. Besides, with a critical point of view the study discusses that television screens absorb the daily lives by the simulations that they create,  and they shape the minds of the viewers by realising the fiction and the fictional mental models shown by the series characters. To sum up, the study proposes that television series construct a discourse of class and inequality by the distinction of ‘rich’ and ‘poor’.  <br /> </p>}, number={56}