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Item The Ideological Construction Of Reality In Discourse(Faculté des Langues Etrangères. Université d'Alger 2 Abu al-Qasim Saadallah, 2014-07-01) Douifi, MohamedThe main purpose of this paper is to set the floor for a fresh debate vis-à-vis a number of issues pertinent to the theory of ideology and language through a critical survey of some key notions in the critical discourse analysis arena (henceforth CDA). In a broad sense, we will shed light on how ideology articulates in the use of language (both text and talk) and where ideologies, more importantly the skewed ones, are being encoded in language. Special attention will be drawn to ideology and discourse as separate concepts and processes. With reference to Professor Teun A. Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive framework, we will argue that the manufacturing of social realities through the selection of specific language structures and rhetorical devices is only one façade of discourse processing. Accordingly, it is crucial to resort to the underlying social and cognitive aspects of discourse production and comprehension to make sense of how discourse is being formulated and loaded with ideological preferences. This would make it possible to deconstruct the implicit ideological ingredients of any given text or talk in the different communicative situations and contexts. ملخص إنّ الهـدف الأسـاسي لهـذه الدراسـة هـو أن نفتـح مجـالا لنقـاش مجـدد حـول نظريـة اللغـة و الإيديولوجيـة مـن خـال التحليـل النقـدي لمجموعـة مــن المفاهيــم الموظفــة في تحليــل الخطــاب. بعب ّ ــارة أخــرى نــود أن نــبرز تمفصــل المارســة اللغويــة بالبعــد الإيديولوجيــة و لــو كان لــكلّ واحــدة منهـا هويـة مفهوميـة خاصـة و إجـراءات خاصـة كذلـك.Item Once Upon A Time Women And Weapons: Ideology Dynamics Behind Armed Heroines In The Fairy-tale Films Snow White And The Huntsman And Hansel & Gretel(Faculté des Langues Etrangères. Université d'Alger 2 Abu Al-Qasim Saadallah, 2022-09-16) Mouchène, SamiaThis paper draws attention to a twenty-first-century Hollywood tendency of weaponizing the fairy-tale female characters and involving them in armed and deadly but “just” conflicts. It evaluates the ideological implications of this trend, in both their patriarchal and capitalist dimensions. The films Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) serve as samples of a larger bulk of recent fairy-tale cinematic adaptations that put forwards the unorthodox association of fairy-tale heroines and weapons. The cinema industry claims to offer new, “feminist-friendly” representations away from the stereotypes in the fairy tales and the “damsels-in-distress” of the Disney Studios’ adaptations. Putting this claim aside, the positions of the films within or against the dominant ideology backgrounds of patriarchy and capitalism are the centre of this study, which is thus theoretically framed within feminist (Laura Mulvey’s) and Marxist (Louis Althusser’s) thoughts. The suggestion of female empowerment through handling weapons and immersion in violence is here evaluated in its efficacy. It is argued that complacency to the male gaze expectations and patriarchy persists, but also that the association of fairy-tale heroines and weapons creates an inharmonious hybridization of femininity and some masculinity aspects. It is reasoned that the combination of fairy-tale heroines and weapons serves another facet of dominant ideology that is capitalism by promoting gun use among the rather pro-gun-control women. Overall, the research details one example of the mechanics through which dominant ideology maintains itself by subtly countering oppositional thoughts.