A qualitative study of gender dominance among Persian speakers

The role of language in representing and reforming reality is the concern of critical discourse analysis which also attempts to analyze the sources of unequality in social relations. Wherever there is a power relationship or unequality of one side, language is a means of control which can be analyzed based on critical discourse and different words and structures are powerful tools for controlling people's perceptions and beliefs. The present study qualitatively reveals that the relations of different sexes are much like the power relations which are controlled by discourse and linguistic features. It is an attempt to make it clear how linguistic elements and discourse structures explicitly and implicitly function in classifying reality, in producing, reorganizing, and enforcing certain ideas, in persuading and influencing other's views and in controlling relation of power. The methodology is generally based on the classifications and categorizations of the texts as well as transformational rules. Also, the three dimentional framework of critical discourse analysis is taken into account. The article also aims at discovering the way male and female interact ideologically with a number of discursive structures such as: nominals, passives, and address forms in Persian language. So, it focuses on the social as well as grammatical aspects of nominals, passive structures and address forms. It is attempted to determine which of the sexes use more transformations to reorganize the experience and to have an indirect and implicit speech.

کلیدواژه ها:

Gender dominance ، language ، Persian