Mémoires de Fin d’Etudes
Etablissement
Université de Mostaganem - Abdelhamid Ibn Badis
Affiliation
Département d’Anglais
Auteur
Meskini, Hafida
Directeur de thèse
Belabbes Neddar (Maitre de conférence)
Filière
Science du langage
Diplôme
Magister
Titre
Exploring Patterns of Cohesion in Leila Aboulela’s Coloured Lights and Ahdaf Soueif’s Returning: A Hallidayan Approach
Mots clés
discourse - cohesion - coherence - Halliday
Résumé
This research paper will illustrate how literature can be used as a point of entry into the study of the English language. The focus of attention which will be introduced and explored here is cohesion in Arab Muslim Immigrant English narratives. I will analyse two fictions: Leila Aboulela’s short story Coloured Lights taken from her collection of thirteen short stories also entitled Coloured lights which was published in (2001) and Ahdaf Soueif’s Returning, also taken from her collection of eight short stories entitled Returning published in (1983). I’ll tackle both literary productions from a linguistic perspective. To be more specific, this analysis offers an introduction to the concept of Cohesion and Coherence applying Hallidayan approach through the medium of a literary text. The focus is consistently on literary discourse with illustrations from the two short stories for what attracted my attention in those narratives is that both authors fashioned their texts in such a way enabling the reader to forget that he is reading a transcultural, hybrid fiction. This fusion of hybridity, transculturality: Arabic / dialectical literal translation, the use of idioms, religious proverbs and translated Qur’anic verses is so interesting that it prompted me as a fresh researcher to pose a set of questions about those writers’ ability to cohere this fusion. How do Leila Aboulela and Ahdaf Soueif texture their narratives? What type of cohesive ties do they prefer to use to structure such fusion? And at last, what are the common points or divergences between both writers’ style? Content words: discourse – cohesion – coherence – ties – Halliday.
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