Throughout the last two decades, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has raised perplexing questions regarding the non-neutral, ideological, and interest-serving nature of discourses, particularly those disseminated under the guise of academic textbooks. The prominent role played by instructional materials in influencing as well as controlling the minds, moods, and actions of recipients has, in turn, called for a heightened sensitivity. Sharing the same concerns, the present study purposively sampled a text from a reading comprehension course book, in an attempt to explore how issues of power/dominance, social inequality, and preferential ideologies are being enacted, reproduced, and legitimized throughout the text. Following the text analytic tools provided by Huckin (2002), the selected case was being analyzed in the next step. The findings of the study proposed hypotheses regarding the ideological foundation of the text, rooted in the notion of economic capitalism. An attempt on the part of the narrator and the textbook writers to support and legitimize such an ideology, through employing techniques of foregrounding the Self and backgrounding the Others, came to be seen too. The generic features of the text also revealed it to be more promotional in nature than academic. At the end, it is hoped that this small step can make contribution by bringing to the light issues already looked at with sightless eyes
کلید واژگان :Critical Discourse Analysis, Power, Ideology, Foregrounding, Backgrounding
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