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Volume 13:7 July 2013
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Poetical Discourse Analysis of a Tamil Song Ovvoru PuukkaLumee

Thanalachime Perumal
Paramasivam Muthusamy
K. Karunakaran


Abstract

This study is an attempt to analyze the Tamil movie song ‘Ovvoru PuukkaLumee ’ meaning ‘every flower’ from the Tamil movie 'Autograph'. This song is one of the popular songs of P. Vijay, a Tamil lyricist. The texture discourse of this song will be analyzed in terms of grammatical and lexical usages found by making use of discourse analysis.

Keywords: discourse, texture, grammatical, lexical, cohesion, coherence

Introduction

Discourse analysis forms part of the description of a language. The term discourse analysis was first used by Zellig S. Harris in 1952. Later on, in the western countries, the tradition of linguistic discourse continued to grow and got the attention of linguists to develop a variety of theories and research methods in this field.

In Malaysia, discourse analysis grew in the 80s and onwards (Idris Aman, 2006a). Currently it is taught as one of the subjects within the linguistics discipline to encourage students to explore poetic discourse further and understand the content and intent of poems better. However, in Malaysia until 2011, linguistic studies undertaken in the field of discourse focused at the graduate level only. Therefore, this research initiates an exploratory study in the concerned area in a small way.

Problem Statement

Idris Aman (2010) states that language fragments contain more than one sentence are accepted as discourse. According to him, in a discourse there are certain linguistic features that can be identified as contributing elements in the formation of a discourse in order to express an intended communication also add that the text or discourse is something that has features that are relevant and quite needed. This kind of view and explanation given to discourse motivated us to analyze the Tamil movie song to identify the aspects of cohesion and coherence as reflected in the Tamil poetical discourse.

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Thanalachime a/p Perumal
vinragu@gmail.com

Paramasivam Muthusamy
param@upm.edu.com

Karunakaran a/l Krishnamoorthi
karuna@um.edu.com

Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication
University Putra Malaysia
43400 UPM Serdang
Selangor
Malaysia
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