Abstract: Critical Discourse Analysis（ CDA ）, which is alive in 1970s, has made the study of language into an interdisciplinary tool and can be used by scholars with various backgrounds, including media criticism and language teaching. Most significantly, it offers the opportunity to adopt a social perspective in the cross-cultural study of media texts. Based on CDA framework, this thesis analyzes the discourses of the famous novel Pride and Prejudice, aiming at revealing the power and potential ideology in it. The opacity of discourse in the novel indicates more meanings beyond the expression. This thesis is to give readers a critical discourse analysis of languages used in the conversations carried by Mr. &Mrs. Bennet, which in order to make a different and clearly study on the significance of language and have a realization of the opaque ideological meanings under the cover of the daily life.
Key words: CDA, daily conversation, power, ideology
This paper will take the conversations between Bennets as the corpus for a critical study. In this thesis, the background information and the novel’s main idea will be first attached. And after clearly constituting image and image system, as well as mastering the characters’ personalities and emotions, the relationship between subject and background from different angles, realizing the function of the words and try to understand the conversations carried by the Bennets, the thesis will analyze the very conversations selected out by using the theories of critical discourse analysis, and then have a deep understanding of the novel in a critical point of view. According to this thesis, readers will have a deeper understanding in daily conversations; of course, the social ideology, cultural and social practice, social dominance and sex discriminations in the 18th century of England.
