sahar bagherzadeh; Mahvash Ghavimi
Volume 14, Issue 18 , June 2018, , Pages 13-28
Abstract
The present study which was carried out according to Norman Fairclough's CDA approche, seeks to present discourse practice and social practice of discourse in the consumer society as one of the postmodernist paradigms in Patrick Deville minimal writing. The main objective of this research in the first ...
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The present study which was carried out according to Norman Fairclough's CDA approche, seeks to present discourse practice and social practice of discourse in the consumer society as one of the postmodernist paradigms in Patrick Deville minimal writing. The main objective of this research in the first stage is to display the paradigm of consumer society in the novel. In the second stage the impact of the consumer society in the formation of social context of the story is studied. The third stage tends to question the social sources which produce the discourse and social practice of discourse to express the side effects of consumer society. In order to achieve this aim the consumer society paradigm will be analyzed in three levels: description, interpretation and explication. The results show that Patrick Deville's specific consideration on the social, economic and political events of postmodernism period are reflected in his novel. Reflecting the consumer society is not a simple representation of postmodernism. Reflecting the consumer society creates the social context of the story and shows the discursive opposition between the rich and poor class of the society.