Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 18، number In Volume 1، Apeil 2025 ، issue Number 107

Investigating the layers of feminine style in the works of Zoya Pirzad based on the lexical layer

Leila Mansouri , Mehri Talkhabi (Author in Charge), Nazhat Noohi , Heydar Hassanloo

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Layered stylistics is one of the applied methods in the science of foundational and structuralist text stylistics, which analyzes and examines the work in micro to macro layers and levels, including phonetic, lexical, syntactic, rhetorical and ideological layers. In this way, language is analyzed according to the situational context. One of the investigated layers in modern stylistics is the lexical layer. The main goal of the upcoming research is to investigate and analyze the feminine language used in five selected works of contemporary literature by Zoya Pirzad. In this essay, relying on Lakoff "s theory and layered stylistics, we intend to analyze the words used in these works from the perspective of women"s style.

METHODOLOGY: This research was conducted in a descriptive-analytical way based on library studies and tried to analyze and analyze the female style in Zoya Pirzad"s selected works based on lexical stylistics. The content of the article, apart from the use of theories related to layered stylistics with an emphasis on the book Fotuhi Roud Majani and Lakoff s theories, is also the product of the authors" personal analysis and investigation.

FINDINGS: The research findings indicate that the general language of Zoya Pirzad"s works in the studied works has characteristics and indicators related to women"s lexical style in terms of composition and layered stylistics.

CONCLUSION: The results of the research show that emotional words and adjectives, lexical intensifiers, doubt markers, color words, emotional words, swear words, avoiding bad words, feminine idioms, household words and specific to women, feminine idioms and affirmatives are among the most obvious aspects of style. Feminine vocabulary in the examined works of Pirzad has been carried out in the scope of the research. According to the results of the research, the novel "I turn off the lights" in all cases has more frequency of female words than other books under review.

Keyword
women's style. Layered stylistics. lexical layer. Lakoff. Zo

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