Exploring the Projection of the Colonizer/Colonized Binary throughthe Use of Adjectives in Selected Short Stories: A Corpus-based Study
Postcolonial discourse has been a focus of research for the last two decades. Previous studies attempted to investigate several themes and patterns underlying these discourses using different methodologies (Chae, 2015; Budiyanto & Latifah, 2018; Laguarta Bueno, 2018;Salami &am...
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description | Postcolonial discourse has been a focus of research for the last two decades. Previous studies attempted to investigate several themes and patterns underlying these discourses using different methodologies (Chae, 2015; Budiyanto & Latifah, 2018; Laguarta Bueno, 2018;Salami & Tabari, 2018). Unlike previous studies, this study utilizes corpus tools to investigate the us versus them binary found in postcolonial texts. The study investigates how prejudice is reflected against the colonized in the selected short stories through the use of adjectives. It looks at the representation of prejudice in the short stories disseminating and reinforcing the binary of us and them. For this purpose, a corpus of 53861 words from eleven postcolonial short stories was formulated. Van Dijk‘s (1998) concept of the Ideological Squareserved as the theoretical framework for this study whereas Corpus Linguistics was the main methodological construct. The adjectives used in the corpus were analysed using WordSmith Tools5.0.(Scott, 2008).From the adjectives, 19 were chosen for analysis and in those adjectives only 4 were positive while the remaining 15 were negative. The results show that the collocations of the negative adjectives with the colonized are dominant as compared to the positive adjectives which are more common with the colonizer. These results determine that in-group and out-group polarization is created through the use of adjectives. |
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spelling | doaj.art-a1efc9c9f4a944f9a90f569575b4e3b12022-12-22T04:30:14ZengCorpus Research CenterCorporum2617-29172707-787X2019-07-01216778Exploring the Projection of the Colonizer/Colonized Binary throughthe Use of Adjectives in Selected Short Stories: A Corpus-based StudyHira Fatima0Sahar Gul1Wasima Shehzad2MPhil Scholar, Air University, IslamabadMPhil Scholar, Air University, IslamabadDean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Air University, IslamabadPostcolonial discourse has been a focus of research for the last two decades. Previous studies attempted to investigate several themes and patterns underlying these discourses using different methodologies (Chae, 2015; Budiyanto & Latifah, 2018; Laguarta Bueno, 2018;Salami & Tabari, 2018). Unlike previous studies, this study utilizes corpus tools to investigate the us versus them binary found in postcolonial texts. The study investigates how prejudice is reflected against the colonized in the selected short stories through the use of adjectives. It looks at the representation of prejudice in the short stories disseminating and reinforcing the binary of us and them. For this purpose, a corpus of 53861 words from eleven postcolonial short stories was formulated. Van Dijk‘s (1998) concept of the Ideological Squareserved as the theoretical framework for this study whereas Corpus Linguistics was the main methodological construct. The adjectives used in the corpus were analysed using WordSmith Tools5.0.(Scott, 2008).From the adjectives, 19 were chosen for analysis and in those adjectives only 4 were positive while the remaining 15 were negative. The results show that the collocations of the negative adjectives with the colonized are dominant as compared to the positive adjectives which are more common with the colonizer. These results determine that in-group and out-group polarization is created through the use of adjectives.https://journals.au.edu.pk/ojscrc/index.php/crc/article/view/253/153adjectivesapplied linguisticscorpus linguisticspostcolonial studiesus vs. them binaries |
spellingShingle | Hira Fatima Sahar Gul Wasima Shehzad Exploring the Projection of the Colonizer/Colonized Binary throughthe Use of Adjectives in Selected Short Stories: A Corpus-based Study Corporum adjectives applied linguistics corpus linguistics postcolonial studies us vs. them binaries |
title | Exploring the Projection of the Colonizer/Colonized Binary throughthe Use of Adjectives in Selected Short Stories: A Corpus-based Study |
title_full | Exploring the Projection of the Colonizer/Colonized Binary throughthe Use of Adjectives in Selected Short Stories: A Corpus-based Study |
title_fullStr | Exploring the Projection of the Colonizer/Colonized Binary throughthe Use of Adjectives in Selected Short Stories: A Corpus-based Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the Projection of the Colonizer/Colonized Binary throughthe Use of Adjectives in Selected Short Stories: A Corpus-based Study |
title_short | Exploring the Projection of the Colonizer/Colonized Binary throughthe Use of Adjectives in Selected Short Stories: A Corpus-based Study |
title_sort | exploring the projection of the colonizer colonized binary throughthe use of adjectives in selected short stories a corpus based study |
topic | adjectives applied linguistics corpus linguistics postcolonial studies us vs. them binaries |
url | https://journals.au.edu.pk/ojscrc/index.php/crc/article/view/253/153 |
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