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Title LINGUISTIC CONSTRUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES THROUGH INTERTEXTUAL RESOURCES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LEADING PAKISTANI ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS

Author(s) Ms. Sadia Siddiq

Abstract ABSTRACT Thesis Title: Linguistic Construction of Ideologies through Intertextual Resources: A Comparative Study of Leading Pakistani English Newspapers Elusive manipulations through the use of intertextual resources to launch different ideologies do find their existence in the editorials which ordinary readers (common everyday reader) may find difficult to catch. The situation gets intricate when it is the matter related to national issues of great importance. To curtail the possible distortion of the interpretive and ideological directions given to the readers through the editorials, the qualitative part of the research aimed at investigating editorials of four leading Pakistani English newspapers whereby the researcher traced and analyzed the instances of manipulative use of intertextual resources applying Fairclough’s threedimensional model with appraisal analysis at the core of text analysis. The newspapers were selected over a period of six months and through purposive sampling the final sample comprised a total of 20 editorials. The findings of intertextual analysis reveal significant and manipulative use of intertextual strategies by the newspapers to serve and propagate their respective ideologies and agendas. Identified intertextual manipulations included intertextual ellipses, intertextual transformations, ideological selection of quotes/events, intertextual swindle of facts, authorial alignment/disalignmnet, discriminatory use of linguistic resources in and around the intertextual references, tempering with contextual data, manipulative presuppositions, and obfuscation of crucial information. A number of different linguistic tools for example counterexpectancy, negation, hedging, buffering, concessive conjunctions, disaster vocabulary, negative/positive appraisal, monoglossic declaratives, heteroglossia, negation, upscalling and downscaling resources, nominalization, meaningful use of anaphoric /cataphoric references, obfuscation, obligation/doubt modals, and contracted dialogic space, helped achieve the abovementioned intertextual manipulations. The analysis of these linguistic tools used within and around the intertextual references also revealed a number of intertextual contradictions in the sampled editorials. To find out the impact of intertextuality awareness on readership of the newspaper and consolidate the qualitative research findings of the research question number three, an experiment was also conducted. The findings suggested marked improvement in the critical reading skills of the readers after the treatment and also consolidated the qualitative research finding of research question number three.

Type Thesis/Dissertation PhD

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Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2021-09-20

Subject English Linguistics

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