• Munaza Noor

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The present study is an effort to deconstruct the religious discourse of Pakistani religious
scholars’ speeches. This intends to examine religious discourse and ideology by using
Fairclough’s model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The linguistic structures (contrastive
pair), figures of speech (metaphors, similes, personification) and interactional conventions (use
of interrogatives, imperatives, pronominal use) followed by the scholars have been critically
analysed to show the way they are used to inculcate certain religious ideologies in the minds of
masses. Thus religious discourses are a means of putting masses in particular subject positions
where they readily accept various ideologies considering them natural and common sensical.
The present study tries to deconstruct these common sense religious ideologies in Pakistani
religo-sociocultural context.

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