Discourse, Text, and Content Analysis of Khushwant singh's short story “the riot”

The present paper attempts to point out the role and significance of discourse, text, and content in a short story. It shows how discourse, text, and content mark the cohesiveness of the text and also become a powerful tool in the realization of the various motifs. Here, the efforts are made for both the presentation of matter and manner. Under discourse analysis, point of view, implications of direct and indirect speeches (dialogues) and their role in asserting power relations, reports, comments, attitude, tone, world view and the author's beliefs are taken into account so that transmitting of matter from author/implied author to the reader or implied reader can be better mapped out. Discourse is a very dynamic field having a juxtaposition of content and text in order that the conversation or the interaction can be analyzed to point out the relationship between author/implied author and reader/implied reader, narrator and implied reader, narrator and character, character and character etc. As far as text is concerned, elements of cohesion at word, phrase, clause, sentence and paragraph levels are discussed in detail. It also includes the role of typography,