Research Article
Reading Slavery through Language Constructed Differentiation in Industrial Discourse Represented in Toni Morrison’s Novel Paradise
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.12-10-2019.2292222, author={Mohamad Ikhwan Rosyidi and Maria Johana Ari Widayanti}, title={Reading Slavery through Language Constructed Differentiation in Industrial Discourse Represented in Toni Morrison’s Novel Paradise}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language and Language Teaching, ICLLT 2019, 12 October, Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICLLT}, year={2020}, month={2}, keywords={construction stereotype differentiation african-american people paradise}, doi={10.4108/eai.12-10-2019.2292222} }- Mohamad Ikhwan Rosyidi
Maria Johana Ari Widayanti
Year: 2020
Reading Slavery through Language Constructed Differentiation in Industrial Discourse Represented in Toni Morrison’s Novel Paradise
ICLLT
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.12-10-2019.2292222
Abstract
Construction of perception ties on the knowledge or understanding of the phenomena. People speak construction as a medium of delivering stereotype continuity. Stereotype of certain people from different skin colour sometimes bears differentiation treatment. Differentiation appears on continuing slavery in terms of stereotyping African-American people in America [1]. Paradise novel, at a glance, voices painful saga of African-American history reflecting race and gender on the people [2]. Based on the discourse of construction and differentiation towards those people, this study aims at describing how African-American people, named as ‘slave’, are constructed through language discourse relating to industrial situation relevance. It depicts on representation of how slavery is read through differentiation stereotype construction in Paradise novel..