Interpreting Emotional Meanings in a Narrative: A genre-based analysis

Zahra  Bokhari; Tazanfal Tehseem; Sehreen Younas

doi:10.47067/jlcc.v3i4.84

Authors

Zahra Bokhari
Tazanfal Tehseem
Sehreen Younas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.47067/jlcc.v3i4.84

Keywords:

Linguistic devices, textual personas, Narrative, contextual value

Abstract

This study provides an empirical support for the proposal that centers on particular use of evaluative language acts to construct different authorial voices and textual personas. It explores how genre techniques and parameters are intentionally deployed by the writers, not only for an emotional impact on the readers but also to make them comprehend their intended meanings. Further, this study focuses on how certain clear patterns favor some values of attitudes with the use of various semantic resources construing interpersonal meanings in the texts while disfavoring or neglecting others. It first explores appraisal through the evaluative patterns of appraisal. It is also concerned with the significance and effect of the commonly deployed linguistic devices on the readers which are analyzed with their negative and positive perspective keeping their contextual value in mind. The selected model is applied to the short stories of a well celebrated author, Oscar Wilde. The analysis involves explicit evaluation and implicit evaluation. The implicit evaluation of the stories has been discussed in the contextual analysis in this study. The findings of the contextual analysis suggest that implicit evaluation often contain important evaluative messages without which the overall evaluation in the conclusion cannot be balanced.

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