STRUCTURES OF POWER IN MAHEENUSMANI’STWELVE MINUTES OF FAME: A STUDY OF CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Keywords:
Twelve Minutes Fame, fiction writer, CDA modelAbstract
This research paper aims to demonstrate critical discourse analysis using three part analytical model of Fairclough and its implementation on the short storyTwelve Minutes Fame by MaheenUsmani a contemporary Pakistani fiction writer.The patterns and inter-connections of the selected are analyzed on the levels of description of the text, interpretation of the text, and explanation of the text. This paper is an attempt to uncover the dangling relationship between various binaries and power structures with an aim to uncover the operations of journalism as presented in the selected short story. It aims to analyze critically the covert and overt message of the story which seems to be didactic. The intended meanings of the selected short story are explored and the paper sheds light on the Fairclough’s model of CDA. Since the framework of the research is complex as all the three levels of Fairclough’s CDA model are embedded into each other, the analysis is not meticulously tidy.