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Title POWER RELATIONS AND HEGEMONY IN GLOBAL POLITICS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Author(s) Ms. Shazia Ayaz

Abstract ABSTRACT Thesis Title: Power Relations and Hegemony in Global Politics: A Critical Discourse Analysis This qualitative study explores the power relations and hegemony in the global political discourse by utilizing the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis. The study is backgrounded in the situation created after the YouTube release of the movie trailer The Innocence of Muslims in September 2012. The video of the trailer containing blasphemous content against Islam and the Prophet Muhammad (SAWW), received protests by Muslims throughout the world culminating in destructions and deaths. The main concern of the study was to explore the construction and reconstruction of power relations through discursive practices of the world political actors in a particular context. I chose 67th United Nations General Assembly Meeting 2012 as setting of the study. I selected six speeches which were delivered in the meeting as data for this research. The data has been analyzed utilizing Fairclough’s (1992a) framework of intertextuality and hegemony. The analysis is based on the study of various intertextual references present in the selected speeches. The detailed analysis of the data shows that power relations are exposed in discursive practices of the world political actors. The study concludes that the discursive strategies of the political actors disclose the construction, sustenance and fracture of the power/hegemonic relations in the context of global politics. The dominant political actors use different discursive strategies to construct powerful self-image and intensify the negative aspects of the subordinate group. The subordinate political actors struggle to construct positive self-image and assist the dominant group in constructing and sustaining the power relations and hegemony. However, their economic status and political situation lead them to assist or resist the dominant ideologies. The study adds to the field of knowledge by highlighting important issue of the present time i.e. the divide between the issue of blasphemy and freedom of expression.

Type Thesis/Dissertation PhD

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Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2018-03-20

Subject English Linguistics

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