The Personal and the Political: An Analysis of Selected Extracts from David Hare's "Beat the Devil: A Covid Monologue" | ||
| مجلة بحوث کلية الآداب . جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 September 2021 | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/sjam.2021.96265.1261 | ||
| Author | ||
| هدي سليمان محمد سليمان* | ||
| کلية الآداب جامعة المنوفية | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Abstract: The study attempts to provide a critical discourse analysis of the personal and the political interpretations of selected extracts in David Hare's Beat the Devil: A Covid Monologue. Methodologically, critical discourse analysis provides a systematic inquiry in order to analyze the textual linguistic features, the discursive elements, and relate them to a wider social context. Norman Fairclough's (1989) three dimensional model is the main approach in this study. The model consists of three levels; textual level that analyzes the linguistic features of the text, interpretative/ discursive level, and an explanation that relates the previous levels to a wider social context in order to find ideologies that can help in the social and the political change. The model is applied on selected extracts from the monologue. The study reveals the role the linguistic features such as verb processes, modality, polarity, metaphorical realizations, foregrounding and backgrounding. The discursive analysis reveals the function of discursive juxtaposition of ideal and problematic categories, delegitimation and condemnation as tools for criticism, and the role of language in generating themes of integration between the personal and the political. Intertextuality plays an important role in shaping the meaning in the selected extracts through the use of direct quotations. Finally, the explanatory level relates the two previous levels and the effects of the discourse in the changing societal process | ||
| Keywords | ||
| intertextuality; metaphorical realization; delegitimation; condemnation | ||
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