Critical Discourse Analysis of ‘People’s Son’ Story: A Micro- and Macro-Levels Analysis
Abstract
The present study has been carried out with the aim of critically analyzing a written discourse which is a story of an eminent Iranian writer, Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1948), entitled “People’s Son”. The story is recalling of a woman’s memory of leaving her three-year-old son in the street since his new husband did not accept to foster him because the child was her ex-husband’s son. To macro-level critical discourse analysis Hatch’s (1992) framework called theme utilized. Likewise, for the sake of micro-level critical discourse analysis the framework of cohesive devices introduced by Halliday and Hasan (1976), Farshidvard’s (1984) stylistic devices, and Shafaie’s (1984) synthetic patterns were applied.
Keywords
critical discourse analysis, micro-level framework, macro-level framework, cohesive devices, stylistic devices, synthetic patterns
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