This study examines the role of the press in shaping national identities in contemporary Bangladesh. It employs the critical discourse analysis method to analyze newspapers’ content and closely examines the news texts of three high-profile events in 2013: the Shahbag movement, the murder of blogger Rajib, and the Hefajat movement. Based on the critical discourse analysis of newspaper articles related to these three events, this study observes a discursive construction of two binary and intolerant identities in the coverage. This analysis demonstrates how the discourse of each newspaper creates meanings related to national identities and ideologies that serve to justify the interests of ‘us’ and to criticize ‘them’.

本研究考察了新闻在当代孟加拉国塑造民族认同方面的作用。它采用批判性话语分析方法来分析报纸的内容，并仔细研究了 2013 年三个备受瞩目的事件的新闻文本：Shahbag 运动、博主 Rajib 被谋杀和 Hefajat 运动。基于对与这三个事件相关的报纸文章的批判性话语分析，本研究观察到报道中两个二元和不宽容身份的话语建构。这一分析表明，每份报纸的话语如何创造与国家身份和意识形态相关的意义，从而为“我们”的利益辩护并批评“他们”。