Unveiling the Cultural Clash through Females’ Attire in A Pair of Jeans by Qaisra Sheraz: A Transitivity Analysis
Keywords:
Cultural Clash, Qaisra Shera, Transitivity AnalysisAbstract
The current study helps to unveil the cultural clash through females’ attire in the short stort, A Pair of Jeans by Qaisra Sheraz. Halliday’s transitivity system (1994) helps to analyse the text of the story. The selected 600 clauses from the story were analysed and discussed under transitivity framework. The results reflected that young Pakistani Muslim girl is judged and rejected because of her attire for marital relationship. The high frequency of material process (223) and relational process (175) represented protagonist Miriam as modest, educated, mannered, bold and liberal and her in-laws found her unsuitable for their son after finding her in jeans and vest. The attitude of a girl’s mother advising her daughter to be silent and dominant behaviour of boy’s parents bank on the stereotypical reflection of Pakistani society in UK. The discussion and expressions of family for jeans made Miriam perplexed for considering pair of jeans to decide her future societal relationship. The study tries to understand the ideological representation of generation X and Y (millennials) for clothing and marital relationship.
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