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This article studies the institutional discourse in Kazou Ishiguro’s novel, The Remains of the Day, in order to reveal notions of institutional representation and power shift among characters. The aim of the present article is to examine whether there is power representation, equal distribution, and/or power shift between specific characters such as Stevens and Lord Darlington on the one hand, as well as between Stevens and Miss Kenton on the other hand. The researcher adopts an interdisciplinary descriptive approach in order to achieve this purpose. The data of analysis include the interpersonal communication between the characters. Thus, the researcher employs the notion of Institutional Discourse as a field of study, in particular the definitions of institutional discourse (Fairclough (1989, 1996), Sarangi & Roberts (1999), and Freed (2017)) in addition to the five principles of Critical Discursive Psychology (CDP) proposed by Locke & Budds (2020, p.238).
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