Examining the female and male language style in the two prominent memoirs of the holy defense "Pai ke ra mande" and "I am alive" Examining the female and male language style in the two prominent memoirs

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1 PhD student in the field of Persian language and literature, Faculty of Literature and Languages, Arak University. Arak, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Languages, Arak Univer

3 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Languages, Arak University

Abstract

The issue of language and gender is one of the most important issues in linguistics today, first raised by second-wave feminists and then most widely studied by sociolinguists. The relationship between language and gender is an important and notable feature in the study of women's and men's writing. What is addressed in this research is the study of the difference in style between feminine and masculine language using a layered stylistic approach in two prominent memoirs of the Holy Defense, "The leg that remained" by Seyyed Naser Hosseinipour and "I am alive" by Masoumeh Abad, in accordance with the views and theories of linguists in the field of gender, especially Lakoff. Therefore, the type of memoir was the subject of the study, whose language is closer to the natural language and the gendered style of the author. Both works were compared at four levels of lexical, syntactic, rhetorical and functional and in 20 linguistic components in a descriptive-analytical manner. In examining these components, it was found that in 9 components of the use of feminine words, color words, idioms, intensifiers, sentence interruptions, imperative sentences, and the use of similes and metaphors, the results were consistent with the opinions of linguists in the field of language and gender, especially Lakoff, and feminine writing was observed in the book "I Am Alive", and inconsistencies were found in 11 other components. The results obtained indicate that various factors such as age, gender, cultural and social conditions, and especially the writing format have a significant impact on the difference in the style of feminine and masculine language in these two works.  

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Journal of Resistance Literature
Volume 16, Issue 31
March 2025
Pages 1-25

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