The role of Language, voice, and stereotype in representing the political identity
Subject Areas : Political Developments in Iran
1 - Assistant professor of political sociology at Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman
Keywords: Meaning, stereotype, Social constructionism, political identity, language, voice, representation,
Abstract :
This paper is about to provide a conceptual model from the process of political identity construction according to the social constructionist views : of Kenneth Gergen and Stuart Hall. . . .In the social constructionist view of point, there is no reality in a discourse that can represent itself without language . . Language is not only a mere way of comprehending the meaning of reality but also a main way of constructing the whole reality .In the constructionist approach, identity, especially the political one, is considered an institutional reality and a linguistic implication with complete dependence on linguistic representation . .The author mentioned that for comprehending the process of political identity construction, it is necessary to comprehend the process of representations of stereotypes and warrant voices in each political discourse, due to the representation of political identity in the constructed political voices and stereotypes . .
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