A critical discourse analysis of Marquez's Tuesday siesta

Abstract EN

The current study is concerned with analyzing and investigating ideologies in Marquez's Tuesday Siesta as encoded by certain semantic structures following van Dijk's (1995) linguistic model of ideology.

The analysis demonstrated the nature of relationships between the rich and the poor communities, exposing their culture(s), i.

e.

their way of living, attitudes, social norms, customs, traditions, and views.

Through lexical and linguistic analysis, the present study also showed a type of ''clashing ideologies'' between Mrs.

Centeno and the priest, which can be a helpful instrument in investigating the short story, Tuesday Siesta.