Abstract
Since human beings started using language consciously, the language became greater weapon for people to create and maintain identity and power. In social fabric, language mainly used as a tool for fabricated dominance and different strata of society enjoyed its disposition. For that, rhetoric tool is of great impetus. Rhetoric is defined by various sources differently. “Rhetoric (Greek rhetor ‘speaker in the assembly’) Rhetoric is the art of using language for persuasion, in speaking or writing; especially in oratory” (1). By this reference, rhetoric as linguistic tool worked powerfully. In this paper, it would be tried to explore the words with their classes showing social disparity by the use of rhetoric. First, the connotations of the words would be determined to judge the instilling sense. Then those words would be categorized in word classes at linguistics levels with functions. Afterwords, the words would be analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively to clarify the verbal rhetoric. Finally, the results would be drawn to see the thematic relationship of words and their social connotations in creating social disparity and status-quo.
Dr. Mubarak Lashari, Dr. Faiz Muhammad Brohi. (2021) Social Disparity and Rhetoric: The Use of Language as Tool to Uphold Superior Status in Mehtab Mehboob’s Short Story ‘The Web’, Kalachi, Volume 24, Issue 1.
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