Subjectivity and hegemony discourse of The whale shark hunter

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Post Doc Researcher at Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

2 Professor of Persian Language and literature, Shiraz University Shiraz, Iran.

Abstract

Investigating the entanglement of subjectivity and discourse, knowing the various aspects of power relations that lead to the construction of these discourses, and limiting subjectivity and agency, are some of the necessities of life in the present era. This is especially for adolescents who are at the beginning of social interactions. Meanwhile, gender is one of the issues that plays a decisive role in constructing the individual subjectivity, and a part of these discourses occur through the gender of individuals. This research targets the adolescent subjectivity and seeks to find out whether subject agency addresses freedom from discourse networks or not? Foucault’s point of view on the social and discourse subject, which has examined the individual subjectivity as a product in discourse processes, is utilized in this respect.
This research is a qualitative research in which the method of social semiotics is utilized to examine different dimensions of subjectivity. Signs have been studied in two contextual contexts (linguistic and aesthetic signs) and social contexts (speech acts, communicational behavioral and body). The findings of this study indicate that the subject of boy in this novel, despite having action and agency, plays a role in the heart of tradition and gender discourse and can be considered as the object of the masculinity discourse. In general, it can be claimed that the subject of this novel is the subject of discourse, and what seems to be about him in terms of subjectivity and agency is only a role as a masculine object.

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