Examining Counter Discursivity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
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2020
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UMT Lahore
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The research intends to examine Arundhati Roy‘s discourse in her novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. It aims to analyze the linguistic significance of the selected text and its role in countering the established social discourses. This study explores how author‘s use of particular words challenges and undermines the existing dominant social structures. It also evaluates how Arundhati Roy uses persuasive language to make the downtrodden sections i.e. transgenders, Dalits, Kashmiris in Indian society to reject marginalization. It is a qualitative research which employs Norman Fairclough‘s Three-Dimensional Model along with the principles of Critical Discourse Analysis. Speech Acts and Persuasive Linguistic Devices will be used to analyze the linguistic significance of the selected excerpts from the text. The analysis of the text reveals that Arundhati Roy‘s unapologetic and powerful language allowed her characters to realize their potential and consider themselves a valuable part of the Indian society.