MANIPULATIVE INSTRUCTIONAL LANGUAGE USE IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES: CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYTICAL STUDY ON WOMEN'S IDENTITY

Abstract

This exploratory analysis aims to examine the tactics of manipulation employed by females in educational institutions. It rationally probes whether digressive enactments in educational institutions have a role in reorienting female learners' identities and to what extent they predispose their prospects. The subsequent research used a qualitative approach due to its specific nature to extract results. This research paper plans to use online interview sessions to collect data. Interview questions were sent to the university instructor for validity and authenticity. The researchers have incorporated Van Dijk's socio-cognitive and Fairclough's three-dimensional models in this investigational analysis. It provided reliable assembly and construction to elaborate on the gathered data for our research. The results are very comprehensible and show rampant manipulation in our educational institutions. Though women majority do not succumb to it, it affects their individual perspectives. It also aids the narrative of the women majority debarred from accomplishing their goals. The research suggests that the basics of educational institutes should be met with immediate reforms, for instance, the provision of gender-conscious counseling for the instructors and congruous measures for the prosperity of the students. The study recommends that educational institutions devise effective policies for the renewal of the academic establishment to embolden students, especially females. Thus, there is a dire need for more research on this topic to draw attention to this distressing affair.