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    THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POWER, IDEOLOGY AND GENDER REPRESENTATION IN HILLARY CLINTON’S SELECTED DISCOURSES
    (UMT, Lahore, 2022) Safina Kanwal
    Foucault’s theory of power and discourse has opened new horizons in the various fields of linguistics. Discourse is a potent tool for exerting power (Foucault, 1998). Critical discourse analysis (CDA) reveals the ways by which discourse is manipulated for the construction of various issues such as identity, ethnicity, ideology, cultural differences and gender. The most wide-ranging and most influential work in CDA is of Norman Fairclough. He takes language as a social practice through which power and ideology are maintained and challenged.The present doctoral dissertation intends to investigate Hillary Clinton’s political discourses in terms of her tactical use of discourse to gain power, to build her gender identity and to depict her political ideology. The study aims to analyze the political speeches of Hillary Clinton to understand the role of discourse in gaining power and also its role in the representation of female gender.