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REVIEWING POWER POLITICS AND POPULISM IN IKS PAKISTAN A PERSONAL HISTORY

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2022(VII-I).06      10.31703/gpr.2022(VII-I).06      Published : Mar 2022

Reviewing Power Politics and Populism in IK's Pakistan: A Personal History

Abstract

    This paper aims to explore the structural ways employed by a Pakistani politician to convince the readers of his socio-political stance on Pakistan from its independence to the present age. For this purpose, the generic analysis (Martin, 2008) has been employed which in turn explains how a narrator is successful in the construction of an argument and realigning the reader with his own point of view. The broader methodology includes how the narrator inter personally interacts with the readership, ideationally shares references and textually builds his arguments in the text. The microscopic construal of those meta functions has been supported by Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014), whereas, the genre has a particular configuration of those listed meta functions. Therefore,the data for the present study builds on the selected texts from 'Imran Khan Pakistan: A personal history by Imran Khan. The findings show that by standing on power, the narrator aligns the readers through negotiation and constructs his argument by giving references towards the history and his own experiences.

    Power Politics, Populism, Imran Khan, Pakistan

    (1) Tazanfal Tehseem
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
    (2) Saba Zulfiqar
    Lecturer, Department of English, University of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Rabia Faiz
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.
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CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Tehseem, Tazanfal, Saba Zulfiqar, and Rabia Faiz. 2022. "Reviewing Power Politics and Populism in IK's Pakistan: A Personal History." Global Political Review, VII (I): 48-63 doi: 10.31703/gpr.2022(VII-I).06

HARVARD

    HARVARD : TEHSEEM, T., ZULFIQAR, S. & FAIZ, R. 2022. Reviewing Power Politics and Populism in IK's Pakistan: A Personal History. Global Political Review, VII, 48-63.

MHRA

    MHRA : Tehseem, Tazanfal, Saba Zulfiqar, and Rabia Faiz. 2022. "Reviewing Power Politics and Populism in IK's Pakistan: A Personal History." Global Political Review, VII: 48-63

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    MLA : Tehseem, Tazanfal, Saba Zulfiqar, and Rabia Faiz. "Reviewing Power Politics and Populism in IK's Pakistan: A Personal History." Global Political Review, VII.I (2022): 48-63 Print.

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    OXFORD : Tehseem, Tazanfal, Zulfiqar, Saba, and Faiz, Rabia (2022), "Reviewing Power Politics and Populism in IK's Pakistan: A Personal History", Global Political Review, VII (I), 48-63

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Tehseem, Tazanfal, Saba Zulfiqar, and Rabia Faiz. "Reviewing Power Politics and Populism in IK's Pakistan: A Personal History." Global Political Review VII, no. I (2022): 48-63. https://doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2022(VII-I).06