Study of Person and Spatiotemporal Deixis in Hasan Kozagar 1 by N.M. Rashid

Abstract

Abstract

The socio-cultural and psycho-linguistic concepts make a fabric or a narrative of a literary text. Certain linguistic cues employed in a literary text help in underpinning and unveiling the literary meaning of a literary text, which means that literature is approached via linguistic traces. Poetry, being an offshoot of literature, also voices about different discourses or worldviews and it can also be accessed through linguistic markers for the analysis of the prevalent themes and motifs. By keeping in view, the importance of linguistic expressions in meaning and sense making of a poetic text, the present paper aims to analyze one such linguistic category i.e., deixis in an English translation of an Urdu poem, Hasan Kozagar1 by N. M. Rashid. Charles J. Fillmore’s theory on deixis (1997) serves as the theoretical framework of the present study. The qualitative and interpretative analysis finds out the three types of deixis i.e., person, place and time in the text under the study. The findings of the study demonstrate that deictic words help in decoding the meaning of the poem by pointing out spatial-temporal boundaries and an identity of the speaker of the poem, Hasan Kozagar Ι.

Keywords: Context, Pragmatics, Deictic words, Person Deixis, Space Deixis, Time Deixis, Hasan Kozagar 1