A Discourse Historical Analysis of Identity Construction in Becoming (2018) by Michelle Obama

Research on identity through written narrative has been popular in the linguistics field over decades. In this paper, a famous memoir by Michelle Robinson Obama, Becoming (2018), is examined to analyze construction of identities. This chosen because strong personal and inspiring story which recounts struggle African American woman against discrimination United States. paper focuses Us, Discourse-Historical Analysis (DHA) Ruth Wodak. approach offers several discursive strategies, some are referential/nomination predication that applied linguistic features provide positive, negative, neutral representations social actor. All these contribute construct Obama’s cultural racial The novelty research lies more historical context as endeavors examine