Syntactic Deconstruction of Beckett’s Dramatic Text: A Transitivity Analysis of Waiting for Godot

Bhatti, Ijaz Asghar; Azher, Musarrat; Abbas, Shahid

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“…Transitivity analysis is used differently from the traditional grammar where it is just a mere identification of the verbs used in the sentence require an object or not (Bhatti et al, 2019). Functionalist stylistics examines transitivity in a slightly different way, as it refers to how meanings are embedded in the phrase or clause into the different types of transitivity process.…”

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Jouissance: Uncovering the Ideological Positions in the Selected Poems of Contemporary Filipino Women Poets Through M.A.K. Halliday’s Transitivity Analysis

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Raymundo

2022

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This paper explores how stylistics link literature and linguistics to uncover the ideological positions in the poems of contemporary Filipino women poets. Claims about women in the past have been crucial because of existing feminist ideologies. The interest in gender and empowerment is an issue today as some women poets and women in modern times have been empowered in dealing with men, in particular. Through stylistics, specifically Halliday’s transitivity analysis, an interpretation of women’s consciousness and experiences became accessible. Directing at how contemporary women poets portray their women-personae, this paper investigated these personae through thematic and critical analysis, alongside Halliday’s transitivity analysis of the poems “Fear”, by Sarah Gambito, “Father and I”, by Maningning Miclat, and “Tribeswoman”, by Marra PL. Lanot. The results revealed that the active actors in the poems are women as persona. Out of the identified processes, 12 are categorized as material processes, three processes each for mental, behavioral, and verbalization, and nine are relational processes. Also, it is uncovered that women in the contemporary period are bound by their shared experiences (jouissance); are awakened; demonstrate character strength; fight back against patriarchy’s oppressive dominance; speak their own language; construct their own society; and create their new identity. Using the transitivity framework as a tool for interpreting literary texts can benefit literature readers not only in uncovering the underlying ideologies in literary texts, but also in making literature reading practical and pleasurable (cf Dulce et Utile).

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Raymundo

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“…More recently, researchers have focused on the destructive aspect of Waiting for Godot (for example, Bhatti et al, 2019;Shahid, 2018;James & Gomceli, 2018;Nykänen & Koivisto, 2016). Whereas some others have highlighted various aspects of Waiting for Godot, for instance, Circumstantiation (Dreyfus & Bennett, 2017) (Kouachi, 2018) and conversation (Hwang, 2019).…”

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Investigating Existential Interpretation of Waiting for Godot: A Corpus-Based Study of Lexical Features

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Purpose of the study: In this study, Samuel Beckett's dramatic writings' major aspects and linguistic qualities are examined, focusing on Waiting for Godot. The importance of these texts' linguistic characteristics has also been investigated. The study also looks into whether linguistic interpretations of Waiting for Godot are compatible with Existential readings. Methodology: Computational techniques such as UAMCT, MAT, SUAS, and AntConc were used to analyze the data. However, UAMTC was employed as the primary tool, and the other techniques were only used to verify the results' validity and complement specific areas of analysis that UAMCT lacked. Main Findings: Samuel Beckett's dramatic works are a linguistic paradox, lexically simple but structurally complicated, according to our linguistic analysis. Waiting for Godot's linguistic elements develop themes such as "Pessimism," "Directionlessness," "Skepticism," "Nothingness," "Existence," "Ambivalence," "Boredom," and "Alienation," These topics are consistent with Waiting for Godot's Existential interpretations. Applications of this study: Applications of this study reside on its far-reaching pedagogical consequences for literature and language. It is extremely important for students and teachers of English Language and Literature and syllabus designers who deal with literature. Originality/ Novelty: The play has a linguistic spontaneity of Existential themes. In a nutshell, in Waiting for Godot, Beckett has not told the predicament of Existence but made it happen linguistically.

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Ideologies of gender representation inHekayat Shaʕbia min Masˁr(2012)

Nagi Sarhan

2023

Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics

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This paper examines how Egyptian folktales, as represented in the sampled data, construct ideologies of femininity and masculinity. 1 It looks into gender representation from a critical stylistic perspective in El Ashmawy’s (2012) Hekayat shaʕbia men Masˁr [Folktales from Egypt]. Drawing on Jeffries’s (2010) critical stylistic model, the present study utilizes two major tools of textual-conceptual function, namely: (i) naming and describing, and (ii) representation of actions, events, and states. It sets off with a content-focused, thematic analysis of El Ashmawy’s seven folktales. Then the author analyzes the data using the selected textual-conceptual toolkit. The paper primarily explores linguistic encoding of value systems and beliefs, latent in the texts, to unveil the ideologies encoded via linguistic resources. The conceptual-textual function of “naming” and “describing” as well as representation of actions, events, and states linguistically reflect culturally rooted ideologies. Findings show that strategies of naming label men according to their occupational roles, which is directly related to the social and referential gender. Women, on the other hand, are mainly labeled according to their domestic roles within the family category. In terms of describing strategies, folktales associate men sometimes with strength, and other times with helplessness, whereas women are associated with either beauty or resourcefulness in a few cases. Moreover, men are seen as agents, capable of action, whereas women are basically represented, rather than in action. It is commonly agreed that folktales reflect and reproduce ideologies within a community. Unveiling the ideologies residing in folktales can hence explain many of the present time’s prevailing beliefs and values and can also be a tool for propagating balanced conceptualization of gender roles.

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Syntactic Deconstruction of Beckett’s Dramatic Text: A Transitivity Analysis of Waiting for Godot

Cited by 3 publications

References 13 publications

Jouissance: Uncovering the Ideological Positions in the Selected Poems of Contemporary Filipino Women Poets Through M.A.K. Halliday’s Transitivity Analysis

Jouissance: Uncovering the Ideological Positions in the Selected Poems of Contemporary Filipino Women Poets Through M.A.K. Halliday’s Transitivity Analysis

Investigating Existential Interpretation of Waiting for Godot: A Corpus-Based Study of Lexical Features

Ideologies of gender representation inHekayat Shaʕbia min Masˁr(2012)

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