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DISCOURSE
Quest for Power Struggle:
Upper Hand Social Structure
Miscegenation and
Cultural Associations
Characterizing Discourse
Utilizing Crafty, Contradictory Advice Produce
Social Turmoil
and
P: One uses mindless, Gain anadvice
contradictory Upper Hand as a means to
and discourse
producing social turmoil for his or her own benefit or “upper hand.”
Iago: “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! / It is the green-eyed monster,
E: which doth mock / The meat it feeds on” (III.iii.165-67).
? CONTRADICTION ?
“Wear your eyes thus: not jealous nor secure” (III.iii.198).
P: “[Discourse] is about ambiguous and
contradictory discourse to produce a
social reality…Our ability to act
strategically is limited by the
discourses that accompany our
intervention and the complex
processes of social construction that
precede it” (Phillips 2).
Political and Social Structure:
Causation to Utilize Discourse as
Means to a Higher Power
P: Political and social
hierarchies often act as a
causation to utilize
discourse as a means to a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fItEf
higher power.
0:56 to 1:40
E: Iago: “Let me
see now, To get his
place and to plume
up my will
In double knavery.
How? How?” P: “…systematically explore
(I.iii.330) opaque relationships of causality
P: “Classification has crucial between a) discursive practices
effects such as whether political and events and b) wider social
processes and relations are and cultural structures and
predominantly represented, relations; ideologically… are
understood, and acted upon in shaped by relations of power and
terms of a division” (Fairclough struggles over power”
88). (Fairclough 132).
Cultural Association: Incorporating
Customs into Strategic Discourse
P: Cultural differences and associations are often employed in strategic discourse
in order to facilitate the process of character manipulation and conniving
schemes.
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