The descriptive analysis of the stereotypical representation of social actors in literary texts

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This article is dedicated to the analysis of the racist ideology in literary discourse.

Taking clues from discourse historical approach that explained the required discursive strategies in analyzing discourse, the present research examines the different ways in which stereotypes can be encoded in the language of literary texts as well as it investigates the linguistic manifestation of racist beliefs in the language of discourse.

The study provides descriptive analysis of different lexical terms and linguistic structures in the literary text ' Heart of Darkness' by Joseph Conrad to offer insights into the way language affects thought.

Doing the analysis, we make an attempt to apply the five discursive strategies proposed by Martin Reisigl and Ruth Wodak (2001) to explain the linguistic manifestation of stereotypes.

The study follows A three dimensional process that starts by selecting a literary text that reveals the racist ideology and moves to analyzing the racist ideas in discourse and ends with explaining the linguistic manifestation of stereotypes.