"Power and Domination in the Egyptian Film "The Curlew's Prayer A Critical Discourse Analysis

The theme of this film revolves around the concept of domination and power in human interaction and communication. There can be no domination without a critical discourse analysis-based power structure. However, the study is concerned with the relationship between the terms of critical discourse analysis such as culture, honorifics, ideology, modality and inferiority in buttressing the conflict of power, domination, ideology and culture among the characters in the film "The Nightingale Prayer". The research data is drawn from the movie "The Nightingale Prayer". Following Machin and Mayer's model (2012) of critical discourse analysis, the study has reached the main finding that there cannot be domination without a critical discourse analysis-based power structure. Furthermore, the film relies on the terms of culture, honorifics, ideology, modality and inferiority to reinforce power and domination. The study concludes that ideology, culture and types of modality are beyond power and domination in communication and interaction among characters in the movie in question. According to the samples under study, both ideology (80.6 %) and culture (75%) have the highest ratio suggesting that both of them are beyond power (66.7%) and domination (50%) in communication and interaction among characters in the movie under study.

Key Words: Power, domination, the nightingale prayer, Machin and Mayer's model (2012) of CDA