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DISCURSIVE EXPLORATION OF HISTORICITY OF ANCIENT PUNJAB IN HEER BY WARIS SHAH

58 Pages : 470-475

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).58      10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).58      Published : Sep 2019

Discursive Exploration of Historicity of Ancient Punjab in Heer by Waris Shah

    This study argues that the critical analysis of the discourse of a given time and place determines the identity, the social life as well as the social roles of people in that social order. With the help of the theorization of Fairclough and Wodak (1997), it explains how Waris Shah in his renowned discourse 'Heer' uncovers the historicity or social and cultural embedments during the 18thcentury Punjab. For Fairclough and Wodak the supremacy/ inferiority of social elements is being exercised via discourse. Waris Shah skillfully portrays in his epic poetry Heer how supremacy/ inferiority is interlocked with every incident of the individual(s) and society. His discourse exhibits that whosoever holds authority misuses it to subjugate others.

    (1) Asma Ghulam Rasool
    Assistant Professor, Department of Punjabi, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Kaneez Fatima
    PhD Scholar, Department of Sociology, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Nafees Pervez
    M.Phil. (English) Department of English, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    APA : Rasool, A. G., Fatima, K., & Pervez, N. (2019). Discursive Exploration of Historicity of Ancient Punjab in Heer by Waris Shah. Global Social Sciences Review, IV(III), 470-475. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).58
    CHICAGO : Rasool, Asma Ghulam, Kaneez Fatima, and Nafees Pervez. 2019. "Discursive Exploration of Historicity of Ancient Punjab in Heer by Waris Shah." Global Social Sciences Review, IV (III): 470-475 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).58
    HARVARD : RASOOL, A. G., FATIMA, K. & PERVEZ, N. 2019. Discursive Exploration of Historicity of Ancient Punjab in Heer by Waris Shah. Global Social Sciences Review, IV, 470-475.
    MHRA : Rasool, Asma Ghulam, Kaneez Fatima, and Nafees Pervez. 2019. "Discursive Exploration of Historicity of Ancient Punjab in Heer by Waris Shah." Global Social Sciences Review, IV: 470-475
    MLA : Rasool, Asma Ghulam, Kaneez Fatima, and Nafees Pervez. "Discursive Exploration of Historicity of Ancient Punjab in Heer by Waris Shah." Global Social Sciences Review, IV.III (2019): 470-475 Print.
    OXFORD : Rasool, Asma Ghulam, Fatima, Kaneez, and Pervez, Nafees (2019), "Discursive Exploration of Historicity of Ancient Punjab in Heer by Waris Shah", Global Social Sciences Review, IV (III), 470-475
    TURABIAN : Rasool, Asma Ghulam, Kaneez Fatima, and Nafees Pervez. "Discursive Exploration of Historicity of Ancient Punjab in Heer by Waris Shah." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. III (2019): 470-475. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-III).58