Ideological Expressions in Religious Discourse in Tayeb Salih's Novel "Season of Migration to the North

Abstract

The main aim for this study is to demonstrate how a literary text can portray the conception of ideological expressions in literary works. In essence, the religious discourse. Additionally, to investigate the language's role in shaping the behavior of characters in literary texts, particularly, as depicted in Tayeb Salih's novel "Season of Migration to the North". Moreover; the analysis focused on the use of the linguistic features such as: speech acts, pronouns, metaphors and some lexical devices. The linguistic features were therefore, chosen as primarily tools for analyzing the selected texts with which they were relevant to the study. The study thoroughly adopted the descriptive critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach specifically, the content analysis as well as van Dijk's Taxonomy of ideology to study the linguistic features which were based on religious and cultural beliefs that they were embedded in the narrative .finding manifested that there were conflicting cultural ideology which were driven from Islam and mainly based on it and from those that based on traditions and customs. Eventually, the study for instance, recommends for further studies that a study should be tacked on ideology of communism.