Applying Norman Fairclough's Model on J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone: Feminism and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in Children's World Literature

Abstract

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a research model which linguistically addresses the predominant social problems by opposing prevalent ideological status. The critical attribute in CDA implies showing the opaque relationship between discourse and societal structure; that is, those hidden relations that are imbued within the text so as to expose the workings of how language use positions of those characters it addresses by subordinating, excluding or even colluding them with the assumed readers of such texts. Women's status in society is anchored in fragmentation in that women are unable to pull themselves together to protest against their fragmentation because they have been trained to think and live in fragments. This fragmentation training in the patriarchal world has roots deep enough to creep to the Children World Literature.

This study aims at analysing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) by the British novelist J. K. Rowling (1965) by applying the model (critical social analysis) of Norman Fairclough (1941- ), a British sociolinguist, which deals with CDA and Feminism.