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Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a research paradigm that linguistically addresses the prevailing social problems by opposing dominant ideological positions. Women's status in society appears to be fixed in division in that Women are so trained to think and live in parts that they cannot pull themselves together. Choosing Katherine Mansfield’s Bliss, the present study hypothesizes that man is portrayed as being superior, controller and dominant as opposed to the woman who is inferior, disadvantaged and devalued. This idea hints at the dialectic relation between language and social reality which constitutes the core of Norman Fairclough's model. The procedures followed in carrying out the present study consist mainly of two parts: the first focuses on the theoretical background in which a survey of past literature about CDA and feminism is done, the second part is the practical in which analysis of the chosen short story is conducted by adopting Fairclough’s (2018) model of analysis. Analyzing Bliss and examining the contrastive-analysis- results show that man is portrayed as the superior gender. The author uses specific terminologies and structures that distinguish men’s language, issues and concerns by exhibiting man as being dominant and powerful. Although on different dimensions, women's identity, power ideology and women's construction as man's other are textually realized in both cultures proving the issue that language is the carrier of ideologies and the recipe of life.
