This paper aims to investigate the power struggle discourse produced by Tunisian and Egyptian Protesters and aims at demonstrating how powerful group can control less- powerful group in terms of access to the power. To bring to light that media discourse highlights power struggle between the dictatorial governments and oppressed masses and in the service of the powerful elite and state. Therefore, the analysis concentrates on such linguistic means as causative group which referred to as top down in the investigation of the cause; whereas effective group which referred to as bottom up in the investigation of the effect. These means have been chosen as primary tools for the analysis due to the fact that they are closely related to the three types of constrains such as content( what is said), relations(the social relations that people express in the discourse) and the subjects (subject positions people can occupy). The critical discourse analysis is used to respond to such problems. Language is said to perform, namely action and reaction. The approach is concerned with the analysis of how ideologies mediated through discourse are embodied in linguistic cause and effect perspectives. The result of analysis has demonstrated that the political elites do not adjust their political discourses which lead to actions processes of individual actors who are regarded as part and parcel from group actions and social reaction processes. These are exemplified in unequal power relation between dictatorial governments which refer to as causative groups and oppressed masses which refer to as effective groups in the investigation of cause and effect in the above mentioned revolutions.
power struggle discourse produced by tunisian and egyptian revolutions during arab spring
Research Article
DOI:
xxx-xxxx-xxx
Subject:
science
KeyWords:
Power, power relations, Causative Group, Effective Group and CDA.
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