TY - JOUR AU - Josephy-Hernández, Daniel E. PY - 2020/02/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Homeland’s Discourse JF - Revista de Lenguas Modernas JA - RLM VL - 0 IS - 31 SE - Estudios sobre lingüística DO - 10.15517/rlm.v0i31.40860 UR - https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/40860 SP - AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'CenturySchoolbook';">This article concentrates on the discourse employed in <span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'CenturySchoolbook'; font-style: italic;">Homeland</span>, a television show produced in the United States. After a discourse analysis of three characters and the set- tings of the third season, it is easy to conclude that the show encourages and display stereotypical portrayals of not only the US and the government’s secret-service agencies, but also of Iran and the Middle East in general. It foments an Orientalist image of the Middle-East (the near Orient) as both an exotic place (as explained by Said’s 1978 book <span style="font-size: 10.000000pt; font-family: 'CenturySchoolbook'; font-style: italic;">Orientalism</span>) and a chaotic, underdeveloped one full of terrorists that must be saved and purged by the United States. </span></p></div></div></div> ER -