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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| author | Abdul Latiff, Muhamad Farid Feisal, Hannah Suraiya |
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| description | 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. |
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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) |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/82023/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/82023/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/82023/1/82023_The%20Poverty%20of%20Equality.pdf |