LINGUISTIC HYBRIDITY: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN

The current paper employs corpus-based linguistic methodology to examine the manifestation of linguistic hybridity in Salman Rushdie’s seminal postcolonial novel Midnight’s Children, published in 1981. Using digital corpus analysis tools, more exactly, Voyant tools, we seek to investigate how Rushdie constructs his distinctive narrative voice through the strategic deployment of… Read more“LINGUISTIC HYBRIDITY: A CORPUS-BASED ANALYSIS OF RUSHDIE’S MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN”