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Abstract
This research challenges understandings of racism through reproduction of racism through discourse. The special
focus in research structure is on the role of the elites in this reproduction process informed by the denial of racism. By exposing
the positive self -presentation and negative other presentations.
I situate the research in a socio-cognitive model. I discuss Van Dijk`s approach and its relation with pragmatistic-model.
I apply it on Thomas Paine`s Rights of Man to indicate to which degree Dijk`s approach succeeded in conveying the implied
meaning
In the light of the theory; the thesis goes as follows:
The first chapter is an introduction .It is about the literary background of Rights of Man, the approach which then focuses
on the Socio-cognitive approach and the meaning of racist discourse.
The second chapter examines the reproduction of racism through discourse and communication. The special focus of this
research is on the role of the elites in this reproduction process. Racism, defined as a system of white group dominance, requires
daily reproduction both at the level of action and interaction, as well as on the level of social cognitions. Since elites control the
access to reproduce race as well as the major topics and style of the means of public discourse and communication.
The third chapter constructs theory of ideology; ideologies are defined here within a multidisciplinary framework that
combines a social, cognitive and discursive component. As ’systems of ideas’, ideologies are sociocognitively defined as shared
representations of social groups, and more specifically as the `axiomatic’ principles of such representations. As the basis of a
social group’s self-image, ideologies organize their identity, actions, aims, norms and values, and resources as well as their
relations to other social groups. e.g. by analyzing how members of ingroups typically emphasize their own good deeds and
properties and the bad ones of the outgroup, and mitigate or deny their own bad ones and the good ones of the outgroup.
The last chapter discusses “Implicature” as it denotes either (i) the act of meaning, implying, or suggesting one thing by
saying something else, or (ii) the object of that act. Implicatures can be part of sentence meaning or dependent on conversational
context, and can be conventional (in different senses) or unconventional. Conversational implicatures have become one of the
principal subjects of pragmatics. Figures of speech such as metaphor, irony, and understatement provide familiar examples then I
link implicature to- socio-cognitive context. At last I found a kind of relationship between implied meaning and socio-cognitive
principle.