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Critical Discourse Analysis: A Scrupulous Look at Invisible Man in Terms of Bakhtin's Point of View


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1 Arak Payam-e-Noor University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
 

The linguistic study of African-American literary texts opens up a wide area of research. Due to this fact this research tries to establish a connection between two areas of study. The first one is Critical Discourse Analysis and the second one focuses on Bakhtin's ideas of novel. This study applies transitivity as a tool of Critical Discourse Analysis in order to examine the ideologies of a racial society adopted in Invisible Man. In addition, what is highlighted in this novel is the presence of the author who tries to make a new ideology. Here a new dialogue emerges and this is a key to establish a connection between the two areas of study. This novel, according to Bakhtin is neither homophonic nor polyphonic. A new kind of novel develops which the researcher calls it a novel of dialogic ideology.

Keywords

CDA, Transitivity Analysis, Experiential Meta-Function, Process, Participant, Polyphony, Carnival.
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Shirin Pourebrahim
Arak Payam-e-Noor University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Mozhgan Eyvazi
Arak Payam-e-Noor University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Saba Mirzaee
Arak Payam-e-Noor University, Iran, Islamic Republic of

Abstract


The linguistic study of African-American literary texts opens up a wide area of research. Due to this fact this research tries to establish a connection between two areas of study. The first one is Critical Discourse Analysis and the second one focuses on Bakhtin's ideas of novel. This study applies transitivity as a tool of Critical Discourse Analysis in order to examine the ideologies of a racial society adopted in Invisible Man. In addition, what is highlighted in this novel is the presence of the author who tries to make a new ideology. Here a new dialogue emerges and this is a key to establish a connection between the two areas of study. This novel, according to Bakhtin is neither homophonic nor polyphonic. A new kind of novel develops which the researcher calls it a novel of dialogic ideology.

Keywords


CDA, Transitivity Analysis, Experiential Meta-Function, Process, Participant, Polyphony, Carnival.