The analysis of critical discourse of Bakhtiar Ali's "The last pomegranate of the world" on the basis of the levels of Furlough’s

Abstract

This paper is a survey on the novel, “the last pomegranate of the world” by Bakhtiar Ali, based on Critical Discourse Strategies according to Furlough’s the three-layered schema. CDA researchers, do not only focus on formal and semantic aspects of the text but also pay attention to cultural, social and political points, affecting it. Thus, this methodology matches more with surveys on novels the focus of which are social, political cultural, and historical issues. Norman Furlough’s theoretical background is a huge contribution to this field that analyzes texts in three levels of description, interpretation, and explanation. In this paper, “the last pomegranate of the world”, the historical-political novel by Bakhtiar Ali based on this approach has been analyzed in order to shed a light on the writer’s point of view to the creation of the novel’s story and its elements. Moreover, the relationship between the story and the discourse on which the story has been based is analyzed. The three-layered Furlough’s schema focuses on the text, discourse acts, and social acts. So, it has been chosen for this survey. The methodology of the survey would be descriptive-analytical and uses corpus data which is the novel, “the last pomegranate of the world” by Bakhtiar Ali. Finally, the most important theme of the story is opposition to war and a criticism to power, which is affected by special discourse in which text is formed.