Foucauldian Discourse Analysis: Language, Power, and Social Reality
Explore the core concepts of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (FDA), focusing on how language shapes social reality and subjectivity. Discover how discourses construct ways of seeing the world, influence power dynamics, and create alternatives through counter-discourses.
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Foucauldian Discourse Analysis. An introduction By Dr, Messaoud BOUKHALFA Senior Lecturer. Department of Translation. University of Batna2
What What is is the focus of FDA? the focus of FDA? How language shapes experience? FDA is concerned with language and its role in the constitution of the social and psychological life. It argues that language constructs social reality which consquently constructs subjectivity.
Basic Basic assumptions assumptions Discourses give people ways of seeing and being in the world. Discourses make available to people certain ways of seeing the world and certain ways of being in the world. Discourses offer subject positions which, when taken up by people, have implications on subjectivity and experience.
Basic Basic assumptions assumptions From an FDA point of view, discourses facilitate and limit, enable and constrain what can be said, by whom, where and when. FDA focuses on the availability of discourses and their implications to how people live.
Basic Basic assumptions assumptions Discourses are linked to social institutions and social practices. FDA asks questions about the relationship between discourses and how people think or feel (subjectivity). It also asks questions on what they may do (practice) and the material conditions within which such experiences take place (institutions).
Basic Basic assumptions assumptions Discourses and power. FDA is concerned with the role of discourses in in wider social processes of legitimation and power. Dominant discourses privilege those versions of social reality which legitimate the existing power relations and social structures. Some are so entrenched that they become common sense.
Basic Basic assumptions assumptions Creation of alternatives. The use of FDA in understanding of how language is used in order to construct social reality and legitimate power relations can lead analysts, leaders, and people in general to the creation of alternatives. It is in the nature of language that possible alternatives are possible, thus counter-discourses emerge.
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