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ABSTRACT
Rape ideologies are produced and reproduced through discourse, in this study the discourse of the news was critical analyzed to pinpoint or identify discursive strategies that some new media employ in their portrayal of rape. This study investigated how news media fuel and sustain rape myths. This study examined how knowledge supplied to the reader by the news media eventually becomes “common sense”. The study examined how topicalization is employed to highlight or emphasize aspects of the news, these aspects of the news that are topicalized are used to foreground information in the mental model of the reader. News article employed the foregrounding of lexical choices to advance rape myths. Discursive strategies are ideological and they enable writers or speakers to reach effective discursive goal. In this study it noted that topicalization can also be achieved not just foregrounding lexical choices, but also foregrounding the good qualities of the perpetrator are ways in which news media achieve topicalization.
