A Discourse Analysis Study of Aphorism in Selected American and British Literary Texts

Friday 1 Dec 2023, 12:00 → 14:00 Asia/Baghdad

ENGLISH DEPATMENT (COLLEGE OF EDUCATION )

What is literary disAccording to van Dijk (1998a) Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a field that is concerned with studying and analyzing written and spoken texts to reveal the discursive sources of power, dominance, inequality and bias.Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) deals with the idea that language is more than a simple means of communication and tries to analyze language as a social behavior to see how social/political power can be conveyed through language. Utilizing CDA as an approach for literary criticism can help researchers to look at literary texts from a new angle which provides opportunities for understanding the hidden layers of the texts regarding social and political aspects. To apply CDA to literary texts, the concept of 'manipulation' should be unpacked.

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