Volume 14, Issue 6 (January & February 2023)
Abstract
The ideological discourse always challenges individuals and seeks to use the multi-meaning nature of language to overcome languages and other discourses. Zima believes that a message conveyed through deliberate and conscious use of language can not only convey a specific meaning to the message recipient, but can also create changes in the type and level of linguistic data comprehension in a way that changes the message in favor of the speaker and convinces the listener despite its reversed meaning. This study attempts to answer the question of how ideological discourse can transform meaning at the level of discourse and, consequently, at the level of the transmitted message, and how political institutions can take advantage of linguistic structures and tools that allow them to legitimize their superiority from a schematic and structured perspective. To achieve this goal, relying on Pierre Bourdieu's sociocognitive theories, the authors of this article have tried to demonstrate the relationship between linguistic elements and power and dominance by analyzing the discourse of the subjects and the characters in the novel "Les Cannibales" by the contemporary French writer Didier Daeninckx. The writer of this novel, in most of his detective novels and short stories, adopts a socio-political critical approach to narrate events that are considered dark moments in contemporary or past French history. He, who advocates against the denial of history, racism, colonialism, corruption of political societies, etc., wrote "Les Cannibales" in 1998, in memory of the "human zoos" of the Third Republic of France, and tells the story of the Kanak natives who were exhibited like animals at the "Colonial Exhibition of 1931". Based on this, the authors of this article examine how the ideological discourse is created and how it changes meaning through narratives and dialogues that take place throughout the book and leads to a change in ideological connotations. Additionally, by portraying and interpreting the nature of the Kanak natives from the perspective of the dominant ideological discourse, it is shown that the dominant discourse, using the multi-meaning and multidimensional nature of language and having the power to organize linguistic structures, defines a nature other than the original nature of the Kanak natives for them, which they accept and lose their human identity.
