Linguistic Strategies for Gay’s Love Construction in Thai Gay Series Songs: A Critical Discourse Analysis Study

กลวิธีทางภาษาเพื่อประกอบสร้างความรักของเกย์ในบทเพลงประกอบละครซีรีย์เกย์: การศึกษาตามแนววาทกรรมวิเคราะห์เชิงวิพากษ์

Authors

  • Siravast Kavilanan Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of Phayao.

Keywords:

Linguistic Strategies, Construction, Gay’s Lover, Thai Gay Series songs, Critical Discourse Analysis

Abstract

This qualitative research aimed at studying Gay’s Love Construction through 4 Thai Gay Series’ songs produced between 2016 and 2017 by adopting Critical Discourse Analysis approach to analyze the texts. It was found that there were 10 linguistic strategies used by discourse producers as followings: Lexical selection, Rhetorical question, Metaphor, Presupposition manipulation, Presupposition denial, Sentence Pattern Repetition, Hyperbole, Verbal irony, Reasoning, and Tautology. These linguistic strategies indicated that the current gays’ love is to reveal the feelings to whom they love, and they expected that they are able to show their love the same way as man-female’s feeling. They, however under mentioned feelings, still have to conceal the love within only two people or specially secret groups because they struggled with their feelings and social obstacle. The present Gay’s Love Construction is different from in the past because not only they were always disappointed with love, but also they have no right to disclose their righteous feeling or opportunity to show love to whom they really adore openly.

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Published

2018-11-13

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2018): July - December

Section

บทความวิจัย (Research Article)