Discourse, Power and Truth: Foucauldian Perspective

Abstract

Discourse is the stretches of language which is socially used to convey broad conventional meaning. This theoretical study ‘Discourse, Power and Truth: Foucauldian Perspective’ reveals the social and educational perspectives of discourse, power and truth along with their basic concept. Being based on different literatures reviews and the concepts the author got in philosophy class at Tribhuvan University, this study aims to provide insights to those who want to get basic concept on Foucauldian perspective on discourse, power and truth. From the study, it was found that discourse is not only a linguistic phenomenon rather it is social too. It is identified by the social conditions of its use, by who is using in what contexts. Discourse is both means and effect of power.