A Study of Discursive and Pragmatic Practices Used in Literary and Non-Literary Texts in Comtemporary Literature

Discourse is an extensive field and it constitutes on a diversity of disciplines. Inherently the word ‘discourse' is derived from a Latin utterance ‘discursus' which means ‘conversation'. Discourse is divided into two type i.e. literary discourse and nonliterary discourse. The discursive practices describe the process of text interpretation, their acknowledgements and description of social effects which they produce. The objective of this study is to carry out comparison between literary and nonliterary works based upon pragmatics and discursive practices. The study is qualitative in nature and it undergoes the contextual analysis of literary and nonliterary text with regard to power, hegemony and ideology of the Pakistani writer Kamila Shamsie novel Salt and Saffron. In non-literary text Parvaiz Musharaf autobiography in the line of fire and the articles of Dawn newspaper are included. Our findings reveal that how writers have consciously and unconsciously used these techniques of discursiveness and pragmatism to indicate the things which has hidden meaning, ideas and philosophies.