Abstract
The present research explores the choice of adjectives as a lexical category in Mohsin Hamid’s novel, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by using Leech and Short model (1981). An empirical enquiry is carried out to trace the author’s choice of adjectives and their intended functions by subjecting How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia to stylistic analysis and linguistic scrutiny. The various functions of adjectives are interpreted after the text is subjected to close reading for their contextual occurrence where they are carefully engraved by the author. The resultant functions throw ample light on the life, culture, economic scenario and love and gender relations construed in the text through adjectives. The present paper, however, is limited only to the interpretation of the adjective categories based on the model suggested by Leech & Short (1981). This study is, therefore, instrumental in initiating a voyage to interpret literary language via linguistic tools and evidences contributing amply to the field of stylistics as well as literary criticism.
Highlights
There is a scarcity of research on literature by Pakistani writers and, Pakistan is one of the major countries providing raw material for historical and colonial research, it has been kept out of detailed positioning in the critique of post-Partition literature in theory and in specific research arenas, especially history and feminism
The present paper tries to unfold the use of adjectives in the above stated novel in order to see the peculiarity of style of Mohsin Hamid through his lexical choices in the text
Taking stock of the literature the present paper looks forward to present methodology and findings with the help of stylistic analysis of Hamid’s novel where the lexical choices of adjectives and the function that such choices owe are the basic interest of the research at hand
Summary
There is a scarcity of research on literature by Pakistani writers and, Pakistan is one of the major countries providing raw material for historical and colonial research, it has been kept out of detailed positioning in the critique of post-Partition literature in theory and in specific research arenas, especially history and feminism. These writers have diverted themselves from the traditional issues of nationalistic and socialist concern but, within their very nature, they contain many political, communal as well as commercial questions of the present day interest
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