A Wedding in Brownsville By Isaac Bashevis Singer

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A Wedding in Brownsville By Isaac Bashevis Singer Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903-1991) was a Polish-American writer and Nobel Prize-winning author known for his Yiddish-language stories that explore Jewish life, folklore, and themes of spirituality, identity, and morality. His works often delve into the complexities of human nature, blending realism with mysticism. In his story, “A Wedding in Brownsville,” Singer tells the tale of a man named Dr. Margolin, who returns to Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood for a wedding after many years. As he reconnects with familiar faces, he is haunted by memories of his past, including lost love and the horrors of the Holocaust. The story explores themes of memory, guilt, and the enduring impact of trauma on personal identity and relationships. Q: Who were the Senciminers? Ans. Sencimineers were Jewish villagers from the town of Sencimin, where Dr. Margolin once lived. They are now dispersed due to the devastation of WW II, and some of them attend th...
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Van Dijk's CDA Model of 'us' vs 'them' by Zeshan Majid

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VAN DIJK’S CDA MODEL OF
“US (SELF) VS THEM (OTHERS)”
KEY INDICATORS
• ACTOR DESCRIPTION
• AUTHORITY
• DISCLAIMER
• EVIDENCE
• COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
• POLARIZATION
• EUPHEMISM
• HYPERBOLE
• IRONY
• VICTIMIZATION
• GENERALIZATION
• PRESUPPOSITION
• VAGUENESS AND HEDGING
ACTOR DESCRIPTION
• 1 Positive self-representation
• 2 Negative other-representation
AUTHORITY
• It can be a person, organization or book.
• It is an influential, higher or superior power that exerts control, gives
orders, and enforces obedience in any particular situation
DISCLAIMER
• The negation in such a case primarily serves as form of positive selfpresentation, of face keeping.
EVIDENCE
• Don’t rely on baseless blames
• Come up with strong evidence
• Prove your opponent to be the guilty party
• Facts and figures……..stats….etc.
COMPARISON AND CONTRAST
• Comparison is an act of looking for similarities or dissimilarities in
discourse.
• Claims vs actions, rich vs poor, black vs white, privatization vs
nationalization
POLARIZATION
• The categorical division of people in in-group (us) and out-group (them)
• Polarization divides individuals or ideas into two totally opposing groups
EUPHEMISM
• Replacement of an apparently unpleasantly of offensive word or
expression with one that is mild or pleasant.
• Use of word honor instead of gherat
HYPERBOLE
• The deliberate exaggeration of certain facts or figures used for the sake
of heightened effect.
• A speaker may use certain exaggerated expressions.
• It may also add humor to a situation.
IRONY
• For the sake of humor or emphasis
• Difference between appearance and reality
VICTIMIZATION
• To represent the in-group members as the victims by the hands of the
outgroup members.
• When the others tend to be represented in negative terms, and
especially when they are associated with threats, then the in-group
needs to represented as victim of such a threat (Van Dijk)
GENERALIZATION
• When concrete events or actions are generalized and possibly
abstracted from, thus making the claim broader, while more generally
applicable.
PRESUPPOSITION
• The information that a speaker assumes to be already known.
• Speakers assumes certain information is already known by their
listeners.
• This is part of what is communicated but not said
VAGUENESS AND HEDGING
• Implication/Implicature
• Used when precise statement are contextually inappropriate or simply
“politically incorrect”.

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