BRIDGERTON BY JULIA QUINN AS AN INTER-TEXT OF FEMALE UNIVERSAL VOICE: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
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The present study investigated Bridgerton (Series 1), a Netflix drama based on Julia Quinn’s novel series ‘The Duke and I’, from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis. The purpose of the study was to explore female voices, marginalization and anti-female voices. Drawing on Van Dijk’s (1998) concept of Macro-structure of Critical Discourse Analysis, suppression, female voices, and point of views were investigated. The sample text from the series was collected after careful reading. The selected text was analyzed from the perspective of the model. The model contained four stages named Deletion, Generalization, Construction, and Integration. The data was organized into eight macro-propositions. The assessment of the macro-propositions was carried out using Macro-Model devised by Van Dijk. The results of the study revealed that the writer portrayed women as submissive and uninformed. On contrary to the representation of women, men were represented as valuable, informed, and dominant. The study has implications for the academicians as well as for the consumers of ideologically driven discourses.
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