Discourse Analyis of the Novel "an American Brat" by Bapsi Sidhwa

The objective of this research paper is to apply CDA to analyze the pragmatics of the text of the novel"An American Brat" written by Bapsi Sidhwa.The novel is about a Pakistani girl Feroza who was sent to America by her parents to broaden her vision due to having conservative attitude. For the analyzing of the dialogues the data has been taken from the five chapters of the novel. The findings of the study show that mostly the dialogues are simple and are related to the discussion of sending Feroza to America. In the dialogues we see that 90% of the sentences are declarative and 20% are exclamatory. There is additive type of conjunction present in the sentences of the dialogues. There is evidence of prepositions also. The sentences of the dialogues contain 3 to 22 words only. The 80% of the statements of the dialogues are in present indefinite tense while 10% of the statements are in present continuous tense, 5% are in Past indefinite tense and the remaining 5% are in Past perfect tense.