A Study of Linguistic Devices in Their Language of Love by Bapsi Sidwa

Zaheer Ahmad Tabassam; Dr. Tamsila Naeem; Behishat Malook

Zaheer Ahmad Tabassam MPhil Applied Linguistics, University of Management and Technology, Lahore.
Dr. Tamsila Naeem Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and Communications
Behishat Malook Bs (H) English Linguistics Govt Girls Degree College Hayatabad Peshawar

Abstract

Stylistic analysis depends on the theories of linguistics in order to investigate the wr iting style of the writers and the techniques which they use in their literary texts. The aim of this qualitative study is to investigate linguistic devices, which are put together into a coherent whole in Bapsi Sidwa’s literary text, which not only add beauty rather modify meaning in different situations. She uses different devices such as verbal irony, parenthesis, Graph logical Deviation, simile, alliteration, allusion, anaphora, cataphora, assonance, consonance, adnomination, parallelism, allegory in her novel Their Language of Love. The applied model for this study is Leech and Short Model, presented in 2007. Leech and Short model of stylistic analysis is based on the theories of two linguists Geoffrey N. Leech and Mick Short. They developed a systematic method to understand, appreciate and analyze the language and style of literary works. Analysis of the selected excerpts showed that some linguistic devices operate at the sentence level and other serve the piece of writing as a whole.

Keywords: Style in fiction, Literary Text, Linguistic Devices.