The poverty of equality: a critical discourse analysis of Harrison Bergeron

This paper makes a Critical Discourse Analysis of how Vonnegut (1961) represents power in Harrison Bergeron, a dystopian-science fiction short story that tries to achieve equality through authoritarian and cruel means. Fairclough’s (1992, 2009) Dialectical-Relational Approach was employed as the the...

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Main Authors: Abdul Latiff, Muhamad Farid, Feisal, Hannah Suraiya
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Selangor (UNISEL) 2020
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spelling iium-820232020-08-11T06:47:58Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/82023/ The poverty of equality: a critical discourse analysis of Harrison Bergeron Abdul Latiff, Muhamad Farid Feisal, Hannah Suraiya P Philology. Linguistics PN Literature (General) This paper makes a Critical Discourse Analysis of how Vonnegut (1961) represents power in Harrison Bergeron, a dystopian-science fiction short story that tries to achieve equality through authoritarian and cruel means. Fairclough’s (1992, 2009) Dialectical-Relational Approach was employed as the theoretical framework. The TRANSITIVITY analysis following (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014) reveals the backgrounding of actor by the author as to hide the agency and dismiss it from any form of accountability and responsibility. On interdiscursivity, the two dominant topoi identified are the discourse of media and discourse of law. Universiti Selangor (UNISEL) 2020-07-05 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/82023/1/82023_The%20Poverty%20of%20Equality.pdf Abdul Latiff, Muhamad Farid and Feisal, Hannah Suraiya (2020) The poverty of equality: a critical discourse analysis of Harrison Bergeron. Selangor Science &Technology Review (SeSTeR), 4 (3). pp. 1-9. E-ISSN 2636-9931 http://sester.journals.unisel.edu.my/ojs/index.php/sester/article/view/164
spellingShingle P Philology. Linguistics
PN Literature (General)
Abdul Latiff, Muhamad Farid
Feisal, Hannah Suraiya
The poverty of equality: a critical discourse analysis of Harrison Bergeron
title The poverty of equality: a critical discourse analysis of Harrison Bergeron
title_full The poverty of equality: a critical discourse analysis of Harrison Bergeron
title_fullStr The poverty of equality: a critical discourse analysis of Harrison Bergeron
title_full_unstemmed The poverty of equality: a critical discourse analysis of Harrison Bergeron
title_short The poverty of equality: a critical discourse analysis of Harrison Bergeron
title_sort poverty of equality: a critical discourse analysis of harrison bergeron
topic P Philology. Linguistics
PN Literature (General)
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