A sociopragmatic account of religiosity and secularity in fictional narratives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21200940 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kamel Abdelbadie Elsaadany (0000-0001-5374-5303, Gulf University for Science & Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-66 |
| Publication date | 2022-03-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pragmatics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1878-9714 • E-ISSN: 1878-9722 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ps.19070.els |
| OpenAlex | W4220769642 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper investigates the religiosity/secularity dichotomy in Naguib Mahfouz’s novels, which is shaped by cultural narratives that convey his ideas. It analyzes a defined corpus of Mahfouz’s narratives that articulate his notions of religiosity/secularity. Through an interdisciplinary methodology combining the application of pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics, and contextual analysis, it aims to determine Mahfouz’s potentiality for perceiving and narrativizing religiosity and secularity in twentieth-century Egypt. It discusses how Mahfouz adopts sociopragmatic techniques to give a bright picture of the secularist discourse but a negative one for the Islamist one presented as inevitably incapable, crude, schizophrenic and idiosyncratic. Mahfouz openly destabilizes the religious/secular dichotomy by juxtaposing religious and secular discourses in his early and later narratives, where he scrutinizes secularity, advocating it as the only way out of and uprooting, religiosity. The adoption of an interdisciplinary framework proves to be theoretically and empirically motivated in order to show how Mahfouz’s narratives reflect their originator’s own beliefs and those of the narrated society, including its value systems
Epistemology · Linguistics · Narrative · Religiosity · Secularity · Sociology · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |