A Critical Discourse Analysis of 'An American Brat' by Bapsi Sidhwa

This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of the novel written by an eminent 21st-century female writer Bapsi Sidhwa. The text was analyzed critically in the backdrop of the checklist developed by the researcher. The findings reveal that a significantly tough language has been used for the depiction of men and women. Roles and responsibilities given to them have been found to be assigned on the basis of gender discrimination. Therefore, it is contended that colonialism still prevails in the form of social, economic and educational disparities in the third world countries as compared to the developed and privileged countries. Similarly, power structures have been found functional in every sphere of life and are decided by the institutions which hold the utmost power. Racism has also been revealed in the text. Ethnicity, race, color, culture and language have been found superiority over all the other ethnicities, cultures, races and languages.

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“One, Two, Many = One too many?” Conceptualizations of mother tongue

Oslo Studies in Language ◽

10.5617/osla.8494 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 135-157

Author(s):

Anne Golden ◽

Toril Opsahl ◽

Ingebjørg Tonne

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Conceptual Metaphor ◽

Mother Tongue ◽

Point Of View ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Novel ◽

Conceptual Metaphor Theory ◽

Traditional Use ◽

Metaphor Theory

In this article, we analyze the use of the term ‘morsmål’ (‘mother tongue’) in official Norwegian documents and in media texts to identify if and how its conceptualization has changed in the era of increasing globalization. Our point of view is explorative. When examining our data, we highlight the importance of reflecting openly about the instability of powerful concepts. We highlight two partly conflicting conceptualizations that we name the ‘traditional use’ and the ‘novel use’, respectively. Building on critical discourse analysis and conceptual metaphor theory we explore how the conceptualizations reveal certain aspects of ideologies and the potential management of multilingualism in society. A broader understanding of how conceptualizations of mother tongue(s) are played out in the Norwegian context may contribute to the dialogue about multilingualism as it is understood and recognized across diverse contexts.

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A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF GENDER SUBJECTIVITY IN HENRY JAMES’ THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY

European Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics Studies ◽

10.46827/ejlll.v5i2.275 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Shah Mir ◽

Saima Jahangir

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Henry James ◽

Social Order ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Power Structures ◽

Portrait Of A Lady ◽

Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Patriarchal Power ◽

Gender Subjectivity

Reassessment and interpretation of gender dynamics in the current social order has been prevalent theme within gender discourses. The yoke of subordination borne by women as readers, writers or fictional characters in the patriarchal pyramid occupies a central space across the whole spectrum of debates. This study utilizes a qualitative mode of inquiry which is centered on textual analysis. The present study evaluates the instances of gender subjectivity and patterns of subjugation within the textual arena invested with hegemonic ideologies as depicted in the novel The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James. The paper employs feminist critical discourse analysis as a tool to analyze The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James in order to dissect the underlying ideologies present in the Victorian time period and investigates discourses of subjectivity. The findings of the study demonstrate that notwithstanding temporal advancements, gender power structures remain intact, and women continue to suffer under patriarchal power structures. Article visualizations:<img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0874/a.php" alt="Hit counter" />

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Trespassing a fusion of linguistic applications

International Multidisciplinary Research Journal ◽

10.25081/imrj.2020.v10.5521 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Mahvish Nisar ◽

Samia Nisar

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Real Life ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Novel ◽

Traditional Values ◽

Ethnic Conflicts ◽

Societal Issues ◽

Code Mixing ◽

Mixed Approach

This research paper aims to explore the cultural, political, and social realities of Pakistan in Uzma Aslam Khan’s novel Trespassing. The ethnic conflicts which engulfed Karachi in the 1990s in the aftermath of the Afghan War and Gulf War are also depicted. Mixed approach has been used as a tool in order to highlight different aspects of real life presented in the novel. These approaches are critical discourse analysis, punctuation as prosody of language, code mixing, and color semiotics. Code mixing in the novel gives a glaring picture of Pakistani culture and traditional values at the major level by the use of Urduised words. The application of critical discourse analysis in Trespassing reveals the political unrest, corruption, fantasy for America, individualism and ethnic conflicts which swamped the whole country. The prosody of punctuation illustrates the hidden meanings of the sentences more explicit thus making the societal issues more protuberant. The prosody is concerned with the semantic meaning rather than rhetorical meaning. Color semiotics of both eastern and western culture also objectified and presented a more comprehensive vision of the culture, ideas, and feelings in the novel. Trespassing is a book which is realistic and in all sense an essence of Pakistan and its people.

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Convention, Context, and Critical Discourse Analysis “Jim the Boatman” (1846) and the Early Fiction of Trinidad

New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids ◽

10.1163/13822373-90002442 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 84 (3-4) ◽

pp. 253-268

Author(s):

Renée Figuera

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Short Story ◽

Cultural Context ◽

Language Use ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Power Structures ◽

Anglophone Caribbean ◽

Critical Observation ◽

The Social

"Convention, Context and Critical Discourse Analysis: 'Jim The Boatman' and The Early Fiction of Trinidad" re-evaluates the claim of colored authorship which has been attributed to a short story published anonymously, in the Trinidad Spectator in 1846. This re-evaluation is significant since 'Jim the Boatman" has been cited as part of a collection of writing in the emerging literary tradition of nonwhite authors of nineteenth century Trinidad. A critical discourse approach to identifying the writer, in this essay, proposes an alternative paradigm to traditional "plantation power structures" which have been used for identifying writers of anonymous texts, as they may override the cultural context of literary discourse formation in complex Anglophone Caribbean societies like Trinidad. Critical Discourse Analysis focuses specifically on the ways in which writers’ discursive behavior is the result of external sociopolitical pressures, and the strategies they use for textualizing their worldview, in their cultural contexts. This alternative paradigm is based on the researcher’s critical observation of the social context, discourse conventions, and language use in relation to anonymous texts.

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Critical Discourse Analysis of Tariq Ali’s Novel “The Stone Woman”: A Corpus Driven Study

International Journal of English Linguistics ◽

10.5539/ijel.v8n1p94 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 94

Author(s):

M. Asaf Amir ◽

Asim Mehmood

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Novel ◽

State Apparatus ◽

The Family

The purpose of this paper is to explore the ideology working behind Tariq Ali’s novel The Stone Woman through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by applying corpus driven approach. Gee’s (2011) CDA tools have been used to explore the ideology working behind the novel. This ideology has been subjected to Althusser’s (1969) theory of ideology to find how Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) collaborates with Repressive State Apparatus (RSA) to naturalize and internalize certain ideologies. It has been concluded that the supremacy of the male members of the family and society has been accepted as an ideology and this ideology has been naturalized and internalized by using certain institutions like marriage, family, customs and traditions. Not only the ideologies have been institutionalized but also this process works for the extension, strength and dominance of the male members of the society.

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Author Identity and the Struggled for Power in Seratus Hari Keliling Indonesia, Kompas TV

10.31227/osf.io/zpx6a ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

syahrul Ramadhan ◽

Vani Afrilia

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Identity Construction ◽

Local Community ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Novel ◽

Key Words 2 ◽

Framework Model ◽

National Ideology ◽

The Government

This study is a discourse-based work which analyses the author identity construction in the novel Seratus Hari Keliling Indonesia (Seratus HKI) Kompas TV in order to reveal the authors’ struggle for power. The data of this study is obtained from f the vocabulary found in the Seratus HKI Kompas TV. Using the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this study applies the framework model of Norman Fairclough critical discourse analysis with the focus on the textual level. The finding shows that the identity (self-identification) of the author as a part of the government, local community, and foreigners are very much influenced by the interest of the nation, Indonesian citizens, conservation, environment, humanistic values, nationalism and patriotism. The analysis on the vocabulary found in HKI is emphasized on : (1) the vocabulary as a key words, (2) the usage of pronouns, and (3) rhetorical language’s style. Self-identification on Seratus HKI Kompas TV is relevant with the slogan of Kompas TV inspiring Indonesia by enlighting people and as a documentary journey that insert the national ideology.

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RESISTING DOMINANT CULTURE IN THE LONELY LONDONERS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

IJASOS- International E-journal of Advances in Social Sciences ◽

10.18769/ijasos.592090 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (15) ◽

pp. 1275-1279

Author(s):

Kawa Sherwani ◽

Saman Dizayi

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Cultural Identity ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Novel ◽

Colonial History ◽

Dominant Culture ◽

Theory And Criticism ◽

The Subject ◽

Cultural Dominance

This paper investigates the resistance of immigrants to cultural dominance of London society in The Lonely Londoners, a postcolonial novel by Sam Selvon. The Lonely Londoners (1956) depicts the miserable life of Caribbean people who migrated in hope to find better condition of living than their countries. The paper furnishes a theoretic ground for analyzing the discourse of the novel which presents the subject of resisting dominant culture throughout events and language used by the novelist. The paradigm of immigrants, their trauma and shock have always been the spot line of discussion after WWII. Through the colonial history there was a dominant discourse of Western cultural superiority imposed on colonized, with the postcolonial era a different discourse emerged through intellectual presentations such as Fanon, Said, Bhabha ideas and others who enlightened literary theory and criticism and theorized resistance and cultural identity. Thus, this paper will critically analyze the discourse of resistance of Postcolonial people in exile to ascertain their existence and identity. Keywords: Post colonialism, Discourse analysis, Resistance, Identity

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Critical Discourse Analysis 0n Ideology 0f Feminism in Nawāl Al-Sa’adāwi’s Mudzakkirāt Thobībah

JETL (Journal Of Education Teaching and Learning) ◽

10.26737/jetl.v1i1.465 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 60

Author(s):

Karlina Helmanita ◽

Emzir Emzir ◽

Zainal Rafli

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Text Structure ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Novel ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Linguistic Feature ◽

Content Analysis Method ◽

Feminist Education ◽

Word Relation

The aim of this research is to carry out a critical discourse analysis on the ideology of feminism in the novel Mudzakkirāt Thobībah by Nawāl Al-Sa’adāwī, through linguistic feature in the symbol of sound, vocabulary and text structure or the dialog contained in the novel. This research utilizes qualitative approach with content analysis method of Philipp Mayring. Data is collected by way of reading the novel, identifying, marking, classifying and interpreting meaning. The findings are 1) patriarchal sound symbols because of the existence of non (nir)-sound in Nawāl Al-Sa’adāwī’s Mudzakkirāt Thobībah linguistic feature. They can be identified as patriarchal because the text is commonly read by men due to minimum access of education for women. Women are illiterate and experience oppression in education. There is almost no information about women figure that become a linguist, scientists and including female scholars. 2) the inequality of antonym and synonym. The word relation and series word by word (word) is ideologically unequal. The words that are used for women are not culturally conditioned as a partner to men. 3) The hegemony of power in the structure of texts in the form of dialog among the characters. In the texts the harmonious and disharmonious dialogs are reciprocal. From the result of this research, the researchers recommend a newly designed curriculum for education to carry out advocacy for the awareness linguistic feminist education with the character of the East and Indonesia.

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MORALITAS ASKETISME SYEKH SITI JENAR: STUDI TRILOGI SYEKH SITI JENAR KARYA AGUS SUNYOTO

PRASASTI Journal of Linguistics ◽

10.20961/prasasti.v3i2.15098 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 151

Author(s):

Agus Sujadi

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Human Person ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Novel ◽

Font Size ◽

Daily Behavior ◽

Text Unit ◽

Research Studies

Sheikh Siti Jenar is a sensational figure through his teachings that are monotheistic. It is not so when reading the novel trilogy by Agus Sunyoto. The spiritual aspects of religion, which are presented can be said to be logical when viewed through the angle of asceticism. Research studies conducted in the form of text with the approach of critical discourse analysis (CDA). The data collected from the text unit of the novel trilogy of Sheikh Siti Jenar by Agus Sunyoto. The result of this research is, asceticism as individual morale leads to social and political morale. And the ascetic ethos of Sheikh Siti Jenar as a human person provides the impetus and limitation to act in his daily behavior. So the ascetic morality of Sheikh Siti Jenar has a general and expansive character. Keywords: Moralitas, Asketisme, Syekh Siti Jenar, Islam, Novel

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The Marginalization of Women in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's Novel: A Qualitative Descriptive Study of Sara Mills' Critical Discourse Analysis in Midah the Sweet Tooth of the Gold Novel, Larasati and the Beach Girl

Journal of Asian Multicultural Research for Social Sciences Study ◽

10.47616/jamrsss.v3i1.215 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Lenni Ashari ◽

Azis Azis ◽

Muhammad Saleh

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

The Novel ◽

Literature Study ◽

Object Position ◽

Pramoedya Ananta Toer ◽

The Subject ◽

Data Collection Technique ◽

The Many

This research is motivated by the many cases of marginalization found in women's themed novels written by one of the maestro of Indonesian literature, Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The novels written by Pramoedya Ananta Toer are known to often raise social problems that occurred at that time, including cases of marginalization of women. Midah Si Manis Bergigi Emas, Larasti and Gadis Pantai are several novels by Pramoedya Ananta Toer which tell the life journey of women as the main characters. The many forms of marginalization of rights experienced by women in these novels become something interesting for researchers. The purpose of this research is to uncover the representation of women's marginalization that occurs in the novels by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The research method used is Sara Mills' critical discourse analysis which has been developed by Eryanto. Sara Mills' Critical Discourse Analysis emphasizes her study on the positioning of actors in the text or what is generally known as the subject-object position and the writer-reader position, however, the focus of this research is the subject-object position. The data collection technique used is literature study and documentation. The results of this study indicate that in the novel Midah Si Manis Bergigi Emas, Larasati, Gadis Pantai written by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, there are several forms of marginalization experienced by female characters in the novel. In addition to getting marginal treatment, the female character in the novel is also positioned as an object in the storytelling.

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