Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 13، number In Volume 3، June 2020 ، issue Number 49

Stylistics Investigation of the Contemporary Women Writer's Novels (Focusing on seven novels including: Wandering Island, the Dog and the Long Winter, Tehran's Nights, Heart of Steel, I will Turn off the Lights, Tibetan Dream, Your Redness is from me)

Masumeh Bagheri , Safieh Moradkhani (Author in Charge), Mohamad Reza Ruzbeh , Saeed Zohrevand

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Stylistics researches have had considerable growth over the two past decades. One of the branches of modern stylistics is women"s writing which have been regarded by social linguists. Layer Stylistics studies style in five language layers including (phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics). The main purpose of the present research is to discover structural characteristics of Wandering Island, the dog and the long winter, Tehran"s Nights, Heart of Steel, I will turn off the lights, Tibetan Dream, your redness from me novels based on the women"s stylistics approach.

METHODOLOGY: the present research has been done through descriptive-analytical method by using Fotouhi"s Stylistics methods. Therefore, one tenth of them have been selected randomly.

FINDINGS: writing style of the most women is simple, together with complete details and exact descriptions. Their interested words which are conform to their sexuality are more applicable in these novels. Characteristics of the women style have fivefold layers including phonic, lexical, syntactic, rhetoric and pragmatic).

CONCLUSION: the results of investigating the layers of women"s style in the works of women writers can be summarized as follows: in phonetic level, Women"s language does not have much differences with men"s language, except difference in tone which is more moderate in women and expresses emotional and polite tone of women. Lexical level is related to women"s gender and women"s interpretations and catchphrases such as implementing color terms and special women"s insults and curses which are clear in their discourse. Syntactic level is related to implementing simple words, parallel sentences, sentences deletion and exclamatory aspects. Rhetoric level shows that simile, irony and metaphor are used frequently in women"s works. In pragmatic level, we conclude that the tone of women writers even when in the words of male characters is quite feminine.

Keyword
Stylistics , Womanly Style , Language and Sex

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