Open AccessA Study of Gender Discourse in Zoya Pirzad Novels
Author(s) -
Fatemeh Kazemi,
Shohreh Dalaee
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of advances in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2348-3024
DOI - 10.24297/jal.v8i1.6025
Subject(s) - ideology , aside , power (physics) , sociology , critical discourse analysis , gender studies , discourse analysis , linguistics , literature , politics , law , philosophy , political science , art , physics , quantum mechanics
In this article, two novels by Zoya Pirzad has been investigated considering Fairclough Critical Discourse Analysis. This article is trying to show how ideology and power of male-characters have influenced on female-characters in these novels. This paper shows that males patriarchal dialogues that are influenced by society, law and ideology put female characters in challenge and pushes aside their dialogues. This paper has investigated the influence of tradition, culture, and ideology on family life and particularly on peoples linguistic interactions from gender point of view. It has been found that the dominant discourse is patriarchal and most of novel females are passive. The research method in this article is analytical and analysis unit is sentences and dialogues of Zoya Pirzads two novels.