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In recent years, a new approach to semantics studies has emerged that is called critical discourse analysis. This is not a politically neutral approach, but rather a critical one that supports the subordinate and oppressed social groups and calls for transformation of socity. Domination, hegemony, race, and discrimination are some of the concepts discussed in critical discourse. The present study aims to analyze The Kite Runner written by Khaled Hosseini using the critical discourse analysis approach. It also examines the extent to which Hosseini has been influenced by Iranian literature and culture in the creation of his novel. Hence, the discourse elements in his novel and the common discourses between The Kite Runner and Ferdowsi's Shahname have been fully explored. In this thesis, the two main components of critical discourse, ideology and power, are used to analyze the findings and to show how the dominant groups of society legitimize their own power and ideology by means of discourse. The study found that the dominant discourses in the Kite Runner are: race and ethnicity, war and violence, woman, rape, poverty and destruction, genocide and massacre of minorities, immigration, violation of individual and social rights, education, family, modernity, homeland, disease and repetition of situations. Therefore, the researcher aims to explain the discourses in The Kite Runner and to reveal the common discourses between the novel and Shahname as well.
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