A Critical Stylistic Analysis of the Ideological Positioning in Some Selected Poems by John Donne

Authors

Riyadh Khalil Ibrahim Department of English, College of Languages, University of Baghdad,
2. Layth Abdul Kareem Hussein M.A. Student

Keywords:

Critical Stylistics, Critical Discourse Analysis, Ideology

Abstract

This paper deals with the ideological positioning of the English poet John Donne in a selected poems of his i.e Holy Sonnet X, as regards the theme of death found therein. The researchers adopt an emerging branch of stylistics, called Critical Stylistics, as proposed by Jeffries (2010) in order to uncover the ideologies of the author regarding the topic concerned and how linguistic choices are used to slant ideas. The model is comprised of ten tools of analysis which, upon being applied to the selected data, have shown how the poet exploits language resources in order to pass his ideology and influence his readers. In this paper, the workings of only one tool are presented as applied to a certain portion of the data.

Author Biographies

Riyadh Khalil Ibrahim, Department of English, College of Languages, University of Baghdad,
1. Professor Riyadh Khalil Ibrahim has been teaching English language and Linguistics for 26 years at the College of Languages. He has also taught in M.A/PhD post-graduate studies. The fields of interest are discourse analysis, pragmatics, semantics and applied linguistics.
Email: [email protected]
2. Layth Abdul Kareem Hussein, M.A. Student

Layth Abdul Kareem Hussein is an M.A candidate at the Department of English/ College of Languages/ University of Baghdad.

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Published

2018-06-01

Issue

No. 37 (2018)

Section

Department of Russian Language

How to Cite

A Critical Stylistic Analysis of the Ideological Positioning in Some Selected Poems by John Donne. (2018). Journal of the College of Languages (JCL), 37, 1-16. https://jcolang.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/JCL/article/view/24