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    Challenging Phallogocentrism; A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Rafia Zakaria’s and Bina Shah’s Newspaper Articles
    (Library Information Servicers COMSATS University, Lahore Campus, 2021-11-25) Muhammad Waqas; CIIT/FA19-REL-011/LHR; Dr. Ali Ahmad; LHR TP 7458
    This study is done to explore the two dimensional feminist discourse (Lazar 2005, 2007) in newspaper articles by Rafia Zakaria and Bina Shah. The purpose of research paper is to destroy the stereotypes in a patriarchal society. How language can create gender strata in a society is one of the major themes of this thesis. Considering the following two dimensions “gender power relationships and gender as ideological structure and practice”, the research methodology applies linguistic and thematic analysis and utilizes Lazar’s (2005, 2007) FCDA model as data analyzing tool. This is a qualitative based research approach and it has descriptive research design. The selected articles are analyzed under Textual, Discursive and societal level of discourse given by Fairclough CDA model with feministic point of view suggested by Lazar. In other words these levels are descriptive, interpretative and explanatory stages of the Fairclough’s model. For purpose of ‘discourse’ different units of language from utterances to paragraphs are selected to highlight hidden ideologies and power structure embedded in the language. All of these units comprehensively tell us of women portrayal in our society. Women have no safe space in this society. They have to be more bound to the norms and values of the culture than those of men. The findings deduct that gender power relations are ideological and societal based. Gender and social practices are linguistic discursive. It tells that how misogyny is negative connotative term and how it justifies men are superior to women. Misogyny is an ideology and enhances right wing ideas which are unhealthy for any society. The research would enable readers to understand how misogyny works and how the women are marginalized through the discourse of the society. In this paper readers will find different phrases and terms which are building the ideological andgender power strata in the society.
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    Interpersonal Metafunction Analysis in the Text: Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
    (Library Information Servicers COMSATS University, Lahore Campus, 2020-11-25) Sania Sajid; SP19-REL-001; Dr. Ali Ahmad
    This research aims to reveal the American culture which has been assimilated by Chinese daughters in the novel Joy luck club by Amy Tan. It uses Halliday‘s theory of Systemic Functional Grammar. This novel analyze under the heading of the Interpersonal metafunction by using mood, epistemic, and deontic modality. The findings data gives understanding of the interpersonal meaning of clauses which is helpful to understand the reader how language assimilation has strongly effected the mood of language and creates constant conflict in the novel. This conflict creates a language barrier between English and Chinese. The text analyzed with the mood, epistemic and deontic exchange of clause which is part of the Interpersonal metafunction of the dialect used in the text. The text analyzed not only with the help of POS (parts of speech) tagging to get the accuracy of analysis done by researcher, but also tells the tabular analysis of mood and modality. Each sentence has a non-identical interactive status and each one embodies a substitute mood option. The type of research is qualitative, descriptive analysis. The text is a story of mothers and daughters who migrated to America from China to achieve their objectives. The text uses declarative, interrogative, imperative mood forms of the sentences that signify the author's role as an information provider, and the readers as the information receiver. The text is analyzed with the mood, epistemic, and deontic exchange of clause which belongs to the interpersonal metafunction of the language used in the text. Each sentence has an alternate interactional status and each exemplifies an elective mind-set decision.