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Linguistic Analysis of the Select Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa

G. Zeenathaman, M.A., M.Phil.


Bapsi Sidhwa
Courtesy: https://zoroastrians.net/2015/07/27/bapsi-sidhwa-on-growing-up-in-pakistan-writing-and-the-future-of-the-parsi-community/

Abstract

Stylistics is the application of theoretical ideas and analytical techniques drawn from Linguistics and Socio-Linguistics to the study of literary text. The study of style in literature can be referred as a figurative language, use of dialects, grammatical choices as an indicator of style, meter, and rhythm. It can be further described as the study of literature as a mode of communication. The modern Literary Stylistics draws upon the area and adds to it the interpretive goals of modern Literary Criticism. In both cases, the use of linguistic methodology has allowed stylistics to move beyond earlier normative and prescriptive descriptions of correct styles to a fuller analysis of language itself and the purposes to which the language is put. The aim of the paper is not only to describe the formal features of the texts for the own sake, but in order to show the functional significance for the interpretation of the text. This paper discusses the fictions of Bapsi Sidhwa. It deals about the use of poetical terms in the novels, Lexical analysis, Structure of the novel, cohesion and coherence in the novels.

Keywords: Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa, Theoretical ideas, analytical techniques, normative and prescriptive, Syntactic analysis, cohesion and coherence.

Linguistic Peculiarity as the Focus

The present research is an attempt to make a stylistic study of selected works of Bapsi Sidhwa from linguistic point of view. Therefore, center of our attention is on finding out the stylistic devices that present linguistic peculiarity in the writings of the concerned author. Sidhwa’s language is aimed to make verbal communication wealthy. The use of literary resources is marked in the works of Sidhwa. In addition to that, Sidhwa's style is different from other writers because Sidhwa has exceptional skills in writing such as: resourcefulness, power of imagination and her experiments in life. Sidhwa's stylistic devices are formed at different linguistic levels. Sidhwa mixes imagination with reality because her novels are her reactive experiments.

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G. Zeenathaman, M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor of English
Adhiyaman Arts and Science College for Women
Uthangarai 635207
Tamilnadu
India
zeenaashiq@gmail.com

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