Document Type : Persian Research Article
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Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
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PhD Student in Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
10.22034/lda.2026.146222.1153
Abstract
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an interdisciplinary approach in linguistics that studies the role of language in society and politics. It examines language as a social practice in relation to ideology at the textual level, and through the analysis of literary texts, stylistics, and literary criticism, it establishes a connection with literature. This study analyzes the novels of Fariba Vafi based on the descriptive level of Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse model. The aim of this research is to present Fariba Vafi as an experiential writer who, throughout her novels, directly and indirectly explores the issues and problems faced by women in society. While maintaining ideological coherence, she attempts to portray gender inequality, authoritative discourse, violence, and male domination as dominant discourses against women at both the expressive and rhetorical levels.
The results of the analysis indicate that grammatical and rhetorical strategies in her novels are mainly manifested at two levels: the expressive level (vocabulary and grammar) and the rhetorical level (figures of speech). The use of features such as the selection of specific vocabulary, the predominance of colloquial words, semantic contrasts, choosing words consistent with the behavioral characteristics of characters, the use of frequently repeated words according to the narrative space, the use of setting, frequent interrogative sentences, simple and short sentences, active sentence structures, the selection
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