A Systematic Functional Linguistic Approach towards Mood Structure Analysis of Soliloquy

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume III, Issue IV, April 2019 | ISSN 2454–6186

A Systematic Functional Linguistic Approach towards Mood Structure Analysis of Soliloquy

Subhanan Mandal ^1,2
1 Phd Research Scholar, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Mysore. ² JRP, Central Institute of Indian Languages.

Abstract: – The Shakespearean dramatic texts exhibit the shades of power and ideology in the Elizabethan era through the representation of characters from various sections of the society. The class sensitive English society were much aware of their addressee’s attachment to a specific social class which motivated not only their choice of lexemes but also the manner of arrangement of the same linearly in their conversations. However, there are situations when the participants in a conversational exchange do not linguistically react the way their mind wants to. This results in a disparity between thought and action. Soliloquies take deep into the minds of the interlocutors and brings out the actual thought process of individuals which may not always be reflective in conversational activities. This study aims to understand the nature of thought process, particularly through categorization of mood structures, understanding the soliloquial discourse and the manner of self expression.

Keywords: – Soliloquy, Discourse, Stylistics, Mood Structure, Conversation

I. INTRODUCTION

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)aims to “describe and explain how power abuse is enacted, reproduced or legitimized by the text and talk of dominant groups or institutions.” (Van Djik 1996:85). This branch of linguistic analysis brings to the forefront the explanation and description of the language in use by the participants in conversation which might belong to different eras of history, each having a significant social and linguistic tradition. Each era has its own social hierarchy and rules of power and ideology which are reflected in the way the people converse among each other with specific linguistic terminologies coupled with syntactic formations. The analysis of conversational discourse brings out such elements which help to dig deep into psychological motives, understand the lexical framework for sentence generation, predict the occurrences of pronouns of address in regular communication and also interpret the influence of power and ideology in speech generation.

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