Abstract
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is concerned with the investigation and study of different means of power that are perpetrated through the discourse practice. Furthermore, the reproduction and the combat to these hegemonic discourses are concerns to the CDA. In this sense, the present research aimed to analyze a textbook, which is academically used in an English Language Course to form English teachers at a university, under the CDA theoretical framework. The inquisitive look of the research is directed to the representations of the anglophonic communities in the analyzed material. From this idea, the general objective of the research was to analyze, from the CDA perspective, the representations of the anglophonic world in the textbook. It was also aimed to investigate the ideology and hegemony that encompass the discourse of the textbook. The Textbook used in this study was The New Framework 2. In order to pursuit the objectives, the Theoretical Framework was based on different CDA theoreticians, such as Fairclough (2001), and Van Dijk (2012). The research was also based on theoreticians from the cultural studies, sociology, history and education (teaching/learning of Foreign Languages), such as Lacoste (2005) and Thompson (2011). The study showed that the Textbook utilized in the research transmits a certain ideology that will be passed on in classrooms; meaning that there is a hegemonic discourse that finds its way to be perpetuated.
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