A Critical Discourse Analysis OF Linguistic Bullying in ‘13 Reasons Why TV Show’

Abstract

Critical discourse analysis is a new approach that has been used in a wide range of researches in the fields of literature and psychology in recent decades. In this approach, discourse is not only a constructive phenomenon but also a product of other phenomena. Theoretical disagreements were sparked by the rising frequency of same-sex relationships. A sexual attraction to or interest in individuals of the same gender is what is referred as bullying. This study has been in qualitative and descriptive form back on linguistic elements and critical discourse analysis. For analyzing the parameters have been tried to determine bullying words according to linguistic elements and structure repetition and narrative cohesion. As a result, this study intends to shed fresh light on how bullying is now portrayed in the media while also exposing the hidden philosophy that underlies 13 Reasons Why TV's favorable perspective. This will be achieved by closely examining the linguistic components of Bullying speech as well as the discourse that describes their characteristics with regard to Critical Discourses.