Linguistic Strategies for Construction of Adolescent Ideology in High School English Textbooks: A Critical Discourse Analysis
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This research aimed to study linguistic strategies used to construct the ideology of adolescence in high school English textbooks used in Thailand during the academic year 2024. Framed within Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis approach, the research examined a corpus of 9 textbooks comprising 270 articles. The findings indicated that all textbooks consistently depict a recurring ideological construction of adolescence, which consists of 3 sub-ideologies: 1. adolescents value popular trends and materialism 2. adolescents can pursue careers, earn extra income, and achieve success, and 3. adolescents have difficulties in life, and need help from adults. These ideologies were conveyed through 8 linguistic strategies. These are lexical strategies, modality, syntactic structures, generalization claims, metaphor, rhetorical questions, presuppositions, and intertextuality.
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