Investigating the Transformative Potential of Excitable Speech Acts in Meri Zaat Zarai Benishan and its Adaptation by Umera Ahmed: A Comparative Study
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2018
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University of Management and Technology
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The purpose of the study is to compare the excitable speech acts in a novelette by Umera Ahmed (1976), Meri Zaat Zarai Benishan (1999) and its adaptation (2009-2010). The objective of this comparative analysis is to explore the forcefulness of threatening and hate speech acts on the speaker’s part and efficaciousness of injurious speech acts on the addressee’s part. It will be further seen how excitable speech acts are transformed from the novelette Meri Zaat Zarai Benishan (1999) to its adaptation (2009-2010). The research aims to interrogate: does the telling to showing mode affect the excitable speech acts or they remain the same as in the telling mode? What are the factors that change the force and effects of excitable speech in adaptation? What are the consequences of domestic politics of performatives that transform the lives of people involved and threaten their existence at the moment of injurious address? The study is based on the theory of adaptation and of speech acts. The framework employs Linda Hutcheon’s adaptation theory (2013) and Judith Butler’s Excitable speech acts (1997) in order to conduct the analysis of data. The data was sampled from three groups as knowing and unknowing audiences of University of Management and Technology Lahore along with the researcher’s comparative study. Through the analysis of vocabulary and syntax the efficacious force and consequences of excitable speech acts were explored. It was investigated whether they reinvigorate through the telling mode or exert more force in the showing mode (through camera techniques, movements and angles etc.). The study contributes to the growing research on speech act theory in linguistics by drawing from adaptation theory. To the best of the researcher’s knowledge no research on these two genres in the context of domestic political performatives as excitable speech acts is conducted.
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Excitable speech,Comparative analysis, Efficaciousness of injurious, Domestic politics