A Critical Discourse Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic Poetry | ||
| CDELT Occasional Papers in the Development of English Education | ||
| Article 2, Volume 81, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 33-55 PDF (709.26 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/opde.2023.298822 | ||
| Author | ||
| Sara Samir Eldaly | ||
| Lecturer in English Language and Literature Dep. Faculty of Arts, Menofia University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study aims at investigating the socially constructed aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The discourse used for the pandemic is modeled on social practices, e.g. the text-based art.net. How do various discourses of the public sphere share the same purpose and depict the social reality? Recontextualization schema licenses discourse legitimation sense through four phases; authorization, moral evaluation, rationalization, and mythopoesis (van Leeuwen, 2008). The data of this study are composed of 105 poems collected and are archived from two books of poems Behind the Mask and the Pandemic Anthology Vol II, and 15 Facebook art.net written poems. The results of the study reveal: 1) the thoroughly recontextualized constructed social reality through the experienced discourses. 2) the poetic discourse employs the four strategies authorization, moral evaluation, rationalization, and mythopoesis so as to legitimate the recontextualization of the pandemic. 3) the poetic lines, like narratives, employ sub-/embedded genres such as descriptive, expositive, and argumentative styles. 4) The conceptualized schema points to the world homogeneous cognitive awareness of the pandemic. 5) The eco-/co-conventional structure patterns represent symmetric thread of fragmented scripts due to narrativity-like sense across the poetic lines. 6) meaning can be attributively or concretely perceived, i.e. the perceptual socialization, through the approximate-based meaning depending on the embedded sub-genres. Approximate meaning stems from the iconicity of lexico-grammatical networks. And 7) almost all the 'pandemic' meaning potentialities dressed the through-argumentation statement given the homogenous intentionality circuits across the poetic lines. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Discourse legitimation; Pandemic poetic discourse; CDA; Interdiscursivity; sub-/genres | ||
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