The Representation of Identity of Religious Man in the Printed Media

This study aims to explore how the identity of the religious man is represented in the press news. For this purpose 213 news that is issued in the 24 national newspaper is determined. This news were used as discourse analysis that is used commınication studies. But in this article the reception analysis is used instead of discourse analysis. Fort his reason the scope of work Van dijk’s prefer to use critical discourse analysis of the semnatic structure analysis was adopted. Using this method, considering 213 news stories tried to establish how the identity of religious man is represented in the media.