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Abstract
The study investigates ideology, power and control relationships as expressed through pronouns, turn-taking, co-operative principle and politeness phenomena in two of Iris
Murdoch’s novels: The Time of the Angels and The Sea, the Sea.
The study takes its point of departure from the firm belief that pronouns are” one of the linguistic tools that can uncover power relations” (Fowler, 1986:134) and control in
discourse. CDA is very much concerned with the inequality of power, as language both encodes and enforces power differences. For critical discourse analysts language is not only a
structure, a mental activity and a social phenomenon, but it is much more; it is an expression
of the ideology / ideologies of its users, their ability to control or be controlled by virtue of
their roles and positions; and the power relationships obtaining between them. As an “academic pursuit”, CDA, Fairclough and Wodak (1997) argue, is “firmly
rooted in the properties of contemporary life” (20). People are becoming more conscious of
the ways language shapes their lives and is shaped by economic and political interests. This is
where CDA comes in handy; it attempts to uncover linguistic manipulation and to reveal the
extent to which language shapes ideological and social identities.
According to Fairclough and Wodak (1997), the principal unit of analysis for critical discourse analysis is the text. Texts are taken to be social actions, meaningful and coherent
instances of spoken and written language use. Yet their shape and form is not random or arbitrary.
Following the most recent versions of CDA (2001), the analysis is in three stages: (1) situating the texts in their socio-historical contexts, (2) analysing the four pragmalinguistic
aspects listed above in each text and (3) discussing and interpreting the findings.