The Representation of Baba in The Kite Runner: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis

Authors

  • Imdad Ali Lecturer in English and PhD Scholar, Department of Linguistics and Literature, The University of Haripur.
  • Dr. Waheed Ahmad Khan* Associate Professor of English, Department of Linguistics and Literature, The University of Haripur.
  • Dr. Azka Khan Assistant Professor, Department of English, Rawalpindi Women University.

Abstract

This study investigates the representation of Baba in Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner using corpus-based critical discourse analysis. For the analysis of the study the researcher uses Ruth Wodak’s Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) as theoretical framework, which includes nomination, predication, argumentation, perspectivization, and intensification/mitigation strategies. The study explores that how Baba’s character is discursively constructed. The analysis shows the text is elevating secular and Western-aligned subjectivities while marginalizing religious and resistant voices. Through these discursive patterns, the text supports the post-9/11 ideological tensions in which Muslim identities are represented through lenses of moral ambiguity, cultural displacement and emotional restraint. This research significant contributes to the representation of Muslim, Post 9/11 identities, diaspora fiction and corpus-based CDA by using linguistics patterns which reproduce Orientalist and neo-Orientalist discourses.

Keywords: Post-9/11 Literature, Muslim Representation, Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis and Diaspora Fiction

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Published

2025-12-17

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 4 (2025): Liberal Journal of Language & Literature Review

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