Abstract
The present study is concerned with the writer's ideologies towards violence against women. The study focuses on analyzing violence against women in English novel to see the extent the writers are being affected and influenced by their genders. It also focuses on showing to what extent the writer's ideologies are reflected in their works. Gender influences social groups ideologies; therefore, when a writer discusses an issue that concerns the other gender, they will be either subjective or objective depending on the degree of influence, i.e., gender has influenced their thoughts as well as behaviors. A single fact may be presented differently by different writers depending on the range of affectedness by ideologies. The study aims to uncover the hidden gender-based ideologies by analyzing the discursive structure of a novel based on Van Dijk's model (2000) of ideology and racism. The selected novel is based on discussing violence against women. The study will later on reveal the real writer’s gender-based ideologies and whether the writer is a feminist or an anti-feminist? Or Is he prejudiced? Or Is he biased?
Highlights
Discourse analysis (DA) has become an influential academic method in conducting studies that are related to analyzing ideologies, their power as well as political events in societies
Discourse analysis is considered an effective method for revealing biases, prejudices, ideologies as well as manipulations in languages; DA has been developed as an analytical approach in addition to investigating the relationship between discourse and society, ideology, culture, power and even politics
The feminist approach to discourse analysis is about how discourse analysis can go alongside with feminist goals, i.e., feminist linguists present feminist problems through language and language use relying on linguistic theories
Summary
Discourse analysis (DA) has become an influential academic method in conducting studies that are related to analyzing ideologies, their power as well as political events in societies. Chris Weedon (1987) has presented the feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis theory analysis; for her languages is the mean that " enables us to think, speak and give meaning to the world around us." ; her approach (FPDA) regards language as a social practice where individuals construct their social identities with its use Poststructuralism provide her with conceptualizations of subjects that help her widening the horizon of her feminist studies. Gender studies at the very beginning tended to present the differences between male/female communication, their language construction and their interaction but mentioned nothing concerning the feminist problems of male dominance as a whole in society (Kendall & Tannen,2003, p.548). Most societies tend to categorize both gender leading to discrimination and even violence These actions are driven by ideologies shaped by social as well as cultural beliefs that is stereotypes. Mr Fleming who is represented as the good and the loving husband who respected his wife and her memories when she was alive and even after her death
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