Discourse, Ideology and Power: From Archeology towards Genealogy

Abstract

Identity is an essential, cognitive, and socialized phenomenon known as discursive one. Identity is relocation from private and cognitive experience to public and other semiotic experience which is discursive system of meaning making. Therefore, it is argued that identity can be found in discourse that entails power and directs individuals. Marx also proposed that identity shapes through the authoritative voice that language carries. On the other hand, Foucault posited the arrangement and practices of social discourse since discourse–based approach indicates identity as a dynamic process that can reproduce or destabilize discursive order. Thus, systematic discourse analysis offers powerful and systematic structures of ideologies although general properties of language and identity are not marked.