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- Title
Ideology and Identification Paradigm: A Study of Relational and Expressive Values in Discourse Samples of Southern Punjab's Lower Middle Class.
- Authors
Rizwan, Snobra
- Abstract
Pakistani Muslims want to identify themselves more in relation to their faith than their geographical boundaries. To this end, identification paradigm (Rizwan, 2019) available to Pakistani Muslims place them in a discursive space of increasing spirituality and religious zeal. It is in this background that this paper takes structured interviews of 10 lower middle-class respondents (conducted at a hospital in Southern Punjab, Pakistan) and analyses them for inherent identity clues. This study uses Critical Discourse Analysis to explore how relational and expressive values working implicitly in discourse provide clue to ideological make-up and identities of the people. In the interview data examined, it is revealed, the identity markers of the respondents are most notably realized through a range of linguistic strategies embodying expressive and relational values (e.g. honorifics, elliptical 'you', 'we' and they' and metaphors etc.). It is suggested that such 'marked' linguistic strategies are required to discursively echo the sociocultural call for people to stay normative and maintain ideological status-quo. The lower middle class, encoding greater use of normative identity markers are perhaps more influenced by the call to solidarity in their respective close-knitted social set-up.
- Subjects
IDEOLOGY; DISCOURSE analysis
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences (PJSS), 2019, Vol 39, Issue 4, p1323
- ISSN
2074-2061
- Publication type
Article