The Image of politicians in Tony Kushner’s Play Homebody/Kabul; A Corpus Critical Stylistic Analysis

Asst Prof Dr Sarab Khalil Hameed,Hadeel Falah Hasan

doi:10.36473/ujhss.v58i4.1019

Abstract

This article discusses the Critical Stylistic analysis of the politicians’ images in corpora of Tony Kushner’s play Homebody/Kabul. The study adopts Jeffries model with the aid of corpus linguistic methods to show how text might be said to perform ideologies. It investigates how the image of war and politicians are presented. By using Naming and Describing tool, the analysis shows that the overall image of politicians is that they were aggressive when it comes to conduct war depending on what have they declared to be done.

Highlights

One of the most interesting period for the political theatre is the 21st century‟s first decade. This period has shown some remarkable political writings for the stage. These writings show the development of the political theatre in that playwrights begin to have a great engagement to the global audience
This paper focuses on how Kushner tries to picturize the images of politicians by analyzing the linguistic practice of Naming and Describing
Van asserts that Critical Discourse Analysis is an analytical choice that tackles the study how identity, inequality, and ideologies are produced and how they are reproduced and maintained within the text in social and political context (2001, p.352)

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Introduction

One of the most interesting period for the political theatre is the 21st century‟s first decade. Van asserts that Critical Discourse Analysis is an analytical choice that tackles the study how identity, inequality, and ideologies are produced and how they are reproduced and maintained within the text in social and political context (2001, p.352). Biber (1998, p.67) explains the empirical aspect of the Corpus-based approach of language saying that it is empirical because it uses a wide range of texts, which are collected by manual or computer analysis and applied to the corpus. In this way, both qualitative and quantitative methods are used.

Tony Kushner

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