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- کد IranDOI مقاله: IranDOI :10.irandoi.2002/bahareadab.2026 .19 .8120
volume Number : 19
number In Volume : 1
issue Number : 119
Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 19،
number In Volume 1،
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issue Number 119
The Impact of Gender and Social Context on Politeness Strategies Use in Contemporary Iranian cinematic prose
Katayoun Kiyanpour , Behzad Rahbar (Author in Charge), Mohammadreza Ouroji
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cinema, as one of the most powerful means of cultural transmission and expression of ideas, can reflect certain aspects of social norms and play an influential role in their formation. The present study examines the impact of gender and social context on politeness strategies use in the dialogues of male and female characters of ten selected films from contemporary Iranian cinema. The aim of this study is to investigate patterns of positive/negative and direct/indirect politeness use, as well as to explore gender-based differences related to the speaker’s and screenwriter’s gender and the influence of social context.
METHODOLOGY: This research employs a nonrandom sampling method. The statistical population consists of all feature-length narrative films produced in Iranian cinema between the 1990s and 2020s. To narrow the scope, ten social realist films—equally directed by male and female filmmakers and representing cultural, social, and linguistic changes in Iranian cinema—were selected and analyzed within the framework of Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Theory.
FINDINGS: The findings indicate that factors such as genre, social context, and speaker’s position (power relation and intimacy) exert greater influence on the choice of politeness strategies than the author’s gender. However, subtle yet meaningful differences are observed in the manner of expression and types of strategies employed by male and female characters.
CONCLUSION: In these films, women and men attempt in various ways to represent and assert their identities. The results of this study can be beneficial for research in social sciences, linguistics, pragmatics, media policy-making, and film criticism.
Keyword
politeness
, social context
, Brown and Levinson
, gender differences
, Iranian cinema
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