Abstract
People use language for different social practices in different contexts and perspectives, and discourse analysts examine these social practices for a better understanding of the discourse. The language used by a poet is different from the language used by common people; the poetic diction helps to understand a poet’s literary style, his ideology, and the use of descriptive language. This article focuses on exposing the socio-psychological factors through examining the use of language in a free verse poem ‘Wedding in the Flood’ by Taufiq Rafat who tried to present different aspects of Pakistani culture in the poem. The socio-psychological factors combine the social (family, society, wealth, religion) and the psychological factors (feelings, thoughts, actions, beliefs) that play an important role in shaping the personality of an individual, and the characters in the poem are the best examples of it. This analysis is based on Fairclough’s conceptions in CDA that claims of an inter-link between ideologies and texts, and this link cannot be separated because there are many ways to interpret texts, and the Socio-Psychological Theory (20121) also combines many social and psychological factors of human life. Many researchers did the stylistic analysis of the poem, but nothing has been done to highlight its socio-psychological factors through CDA.
Highlights
Background of the study CDA is a set of problem-oriented and multidisciplinary methods commonly used in educational research..., and “discourse can be taken as a multimodal social practice” (Rogers, 2011)
This growing interdisciplinary approach has its own ideology to study practical use of language in different contexts focusing on the social practices of language (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997), and these practices have their own purposes in different social situations
There are different aspects of human life in this poem, but this study only focuses on exploring socio-psychological factors of human life presented in the poem through different characters
Summary
Background of the study CDA is a set of problem-oriented and multidisciplinary methods commonly used in educational research..., and “discourse can be taken as a multimodal social practice” (Rogers, 2011). Common people use language for different social practices, but a poet enjoys a unique status and freedom among the users of language...Poetic language mostly violates or deviates from the general language rules (Leech 1969), and the discourse analysts examine the use of language for better understanding of the discourse He critically studies the linguistic choices and their various aspects to understand the use of language behind the text. Many researchers made serious efforts to conduct stylistic analysis of the poem in different contexts, but nothing has yet been done in this context of CDA In this way, the present study filled the research gap and contributed to the existing knowledge of the research community through the discourse analysis of sociopsychological factors of human life presented in the poem. This study critically analyzed only one important aspect of human life through the following research question
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