Good advice is rarer than rubies: A linguistic analysis of Salman Rushdie´s littérature engagé
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Attitudinal Evaluation, Social Commitment, LiteratureAbstract
This work aims to look into the semantic construe underlying Rushdie’s linguistic choices in Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies, in order to unveil the writer´s commitment to the characters and the social issues brought up in the text regarding the gender, political and economic discrimination in the Indian culture, particularly, and the East imposed by the Western powers, while challenging the reader to take a stance before them. The writer’s engagement echoes Sartre’s literature (1966) to whom writing is to be, writer and reader, the latter being the constructor of meaning, committed to freedom, the present time, and social issues. The study draws on Halliday’s (2014) Systemic-Functional Grammar (SFG) and Martin and White’s (2005) Appraisal Theory to surface the characters’ attitudinal aspects of affect, judgement, and appreciation, expressed in the mental and verbal processes that make up the story.
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