Homeland’s Discourse
This article concentrates on the discourse employed in Homeland, a television show produced in the United States. After a discourse analysis of three characters and the set- tings of the third season, it is easy to conclude that the show encourages and display stereotypical portrayals of not only...
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RLM408602020-07-23T17:29:33Z Homeland’s Discourse Homeland’s Discourse Josephy-Hernández, Daniel E. This article concentrates on the discourse employed in Homeland, a television show produced in the United States. After a discourse analysis of three characters and the set- tings of the third season, it is easy to conclude that the show encourages and display stereotypical portrayals of not only the US and the government’s secret-service agencies, but also of Iran and the Middle East in general. It foments an Orientalist image of the Middle-East (the near Orient) as both an exotic place (as explained by Said’s 1978 book Orientalism) and a chaotic, underdeveloped one full of terrorists that must be saved and purged by the United States. This article concentrates on the discourse employed in Homeland, a television show produced in the United States. After a discourse analysis of three characters and the set- tings of the third season, it is easy to conclude that the show encourages and display stereotypical portrayals of not only the US and the government’s secret-service agencies, but also of Iran and the Middle East in general. It foments an Orientalist image of the Middle-East (the near Orient) as both an exotic place (as explained by Said’s 1978 book Orientalism) and a chaotic, underdeveloped one full of terrorists that must be saved and purged by the United States. Escuela de Lenguas Modernas, Universidad de Costa Rica 2020-02-27 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Article Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf application/epub+zip text/html https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/40860 10.15517/rlm.v0i31.40860 Journal Of Modern Languages; No. 31 (2019) Revista de Lenguas Modernas; Núm. 31 (2019) 2215-5643 1659-1933 10.15517/rlm.v0i31 eng https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/40860/41450 https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/40860/41451 https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/40860/41452 Derechos de autor 2020 Daniel E. Josephy-Hernández |
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This article concentrates on the discourse employed in Homeland, a television show produced in the United States. After a discourse analysis of three characters and the set- tings of the third season, it is easy to conclude that the show encourages and display stereotypical portrayals of not only the US and the government’s secret-service agencies, but also of Iran and the Middle East in general. It foments an Orientalist image of the Middle-East (the near Orient) as both an exotic place (as explained by Said’s 1978 book Orientalism) and a chaotic, underdeveloped one full of terrorists that must be saved and purged by the United States.
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