Open AccessStylistic analysis of sarcasm in some selected extracts of schoolteacher in Morrison’s beloved
Author(s) -
Rusul Abdel Kareem Atu,
Abbas Lutfi Hussein,
Nadia Majeed Hussein
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
linguistics and culture review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2690-103X
DOI - 10.21744/lingcure.v6ns2.1888
Subject(s) - sarcasm , literal and figurative language , linguistics , literal (mathematical logic) , psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , irony , philosophy
Sarcasm is a manipulative concept which can be utilized in different forms and different senses to express different intentions. Toni Morrison makes full use of linguistic and figurative tools to express her sarcastic events and situations. Thus, this paper investigates the stylistic use of sarcasm in some selected extracts of Schoolteacher in Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ , focusing on the purposes behind the use of sarcasm in this novel. Five extracts are selected to be stylistically analyzed in terms of Leech and Short’s (2007) model. The paper concludes that Morrison utilizes lexical, grammatical and figurative devices to depict the schoolteacher’s sarcastic views and events concerning slaving black people.