A Comparative Study of Childrens Stories and Adults Short Stories Within the Framework of Critical Discourse Analysis
(0) Critical discourse analysis is an approach toward textual commentary that equips the society with the capacities and understanding which are prerequisites for an effective citizenship in the domain of language. CDA aims to depict those aspects of discourse that are ideologically-loaded and the relations of power that underlie them, which are often unclear to people. CDA shows that major social and political processes have a linguistic-discursive characteristic in part. This follows from the fact that social and political changes in contemporary society include an element of cultural and ideological change. This study was an attempt to uncover the ideological patterns practiced in discourse. It showed how certain discursive features manipulated the representation of certain ideologies in childrens and adults stories, and in which texts (childrens or adults) more features were applied. For this purpose, ten childrens stories and ten adults short stories written by different contemporary writers were analyzed on the basis of the socio-semantic features of Van Leeuwens (1996): suppression vs. backgrounding, nomination vs. categorization, activation vs. passivation, abstraction vs. objectivation, and determination vs. indetermination. The obtained results and percentages were analyzed by the application of chi-square. They showed that there was a significant difference between childrens stories compared with adults short stories in applying the discursive features and that in adults texts more socio-semantic features were applied.
critical discourse analysis ideological pattern socio-semantic
Foozieh Fard Mortaza Yamini
Eslamic Azad University of Sepidan Shiraz University
国际会议
The Third Asia-TEFL International Conference(亚洲英语教师协会第三届国际会议)
北京
英文
509-517
2005-11-04（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）