More specifically, it discusses this relocation which is termed as zoning as a dilemma for the Natives because this practice by the Euro Americans, which is primarily involves their. This paper disrupts the Euro Americans’ environmental colonialist discourse which involves the practices of racist policies that result in the relocation of the Native Americans to a confinement called reservation. It also highlights the productive attempt by a lowest of the low caste individual to become a successful entrepreneur by adapting to and using the same cognitive and discursive tactics as employed against people like him by the powerful social class. The study elucidates that the poor-rich divide, which is prevalent in the Indian society, is mainly created by the dominant class through their manipulation of the cognition of the dominated class. Additionally, the latter perspective also works as a model for the research. The study applies Marx’s Dialectical Materialism and van Dijk’s concept of Discourse and Manipulation. The paper scrutinizes this notion in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger. Moreover, this achieved knowledge and realization also enables them to adapt themselves to the cognitive and discursive practices of the dominant class for the improvement of their socioeconomic position. manipulated individuals come to achieve enough knowledge and realization which protect their cognition from being manipulated further. The hegemony of the powerful social groups is, however, may be countered when the. These strategies are accomplished through the exploitation of social knowledge, identities and ideologies, which, for their constitution, owe to the cognitive and discursive tactics themselves. The powerful social class exercises its hegemonic practices mainly on the basis of cognitive and discursive strategies. Finally, this theory is illustrated by a partial analysis of a speech by Tony Blair in the House of Commons legitimating the participation of the UK in the US-led war against Iraq in 2003. At all these levels of analysis it is shown how manipulation is different from legitimate mind control, such as in persuasion and providing information, for instance by stipulating that manipulation is in the best interest of the dominated group and against the best interests of dominated groups. Discursively, manipulation generally involves the usual forms and formats of ideological discourse, such as emphasizing Our good things, and emphasizing Their bad things. Cognitively, manipulation as mind control involves the interference with processes of understanding, the formation of biased mental models and social representations such as knowledge and ideologies. Socially, manipulation is defined as illegitimate domination confirming social inequality. This article offers a triangulated approach to manipulation as a form of social power abuse, cognitive mind control and discursive interaction. ‘Manipulation’ is one of the crucial notions of Critical Discourse Analysis that require further theoretical analysis. The study beckons towards the unexplored research dimensions to synthesize the reciprocity of the Marxian dialectic and critical discourse analysis. The analysis reflects that the socioeconomic monopolization by the ruling class owes to the discourse strategies of this class and that the unprivileged individuals also use the same manipulative tactics to counter the socioeconomic hegemony of the ruling elites to improve their status. The study applies this socio-cognitive approach as a model as well. van Dijk's socio-cognitive approach in Critical Discourse Analysis as a linguistic perspective for its textual analysis. This qualitative research establishes its ontological premise on Marx's philosophy of Dialectical Materialism and uses Teun A. It analyses Claude Brown's Manchild in the Promised Land to investigate the Marxian concept of social dialectic the way this dialectic is reflected linguistically. This research paper aims at ascertaining this reciprocity of the Marxian approach and critical discourse analysis. This process of resistance by the deprived to the established hegemony of the few needs the same manipulative tactics to be employed by them as has been used against them by the privileged.
However, this hegemony may provoke a strong resistance and subsequent endeavors by the oppressed ameliorate their socioeconomic status. Their hegemony over the underprivileged establishes and sustains itself through manipulative strategies that are discursive.
In a world polarised by socioeconomic disparity, the socially powerful group claims its primacy in the means of production and social resources. Dialectic Materialism Discourse Cognition Manipulation Race In the Marxian perspective, all ideological abstractions stand corollary to materialism.
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