The Image of politicians in Tony Kushner’s Play Homebody/Kabul; A Corpus Critical Stylistic Analysis

Abstract

This article discusses the Critical Stylistic analysis of the politicians’ images in corpora of Tony Kushner’s play Homebody/Kabul. The study adopts Jeffries model with the aid of corpus linguistic methods to show how text might be said to perform ideologies. It investigates how the image of war and politicians are presented. By using Naming and Describing tool, the analysis shows that the overall image of politicians is that they were aggressive when it comes to conduct war depending on what have they declared to be done.

Keywords

• Critical Stylistics, Corpus Analysis, ideology, Dramatic text, naming, modification