Speech Acts of Women in Simin Daneshvar’s Soovashoon Novel

Sedaghat, Elham; Azar, Esmaeil

doi:10.30473/il.2025.60186.1473

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Elham Sedaghat ¹
Esmaeil Azar ²

¹ Ph.D. Candidate in Persian Language and Literature, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran .

² Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.30473/il.2025.60186.1473

Abstract

Speech acts as the pragmatic part of the language have significant role in the social status representation of society people. So, investigating speech acts of the novel characters can enhance pragmatic and sociolinguistic knowledge of the foreign language learners and improve sociocultural knowledge of the foreigners about a speech community. According to the necessity and importance of this issue in Persian learning, and the lack of local social researches in applied linguistics and Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages (TPSOL), through a qualitative content analysis method, the present study investigates speech acts used in Simin Daneshvar’s “Soovashoon” Persian novel. The results show that the male and female characters of this novel have used the assertive, directive, and expressive speech acts more than the commissive, and declarative speech acts. Moreover, a comparative analysis of the results shows that Iranian women, in both the urban and rural contexts, follow almost the same pattern in using Searle’s (1969) speech acts.

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Sociolinguistics

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Journal of Sociolinguistics

Speech Acts of Women in Simin Daneshvar’s Soovashoon Novel

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Volume 7, Issue 4 - Serial Number 28
December 2024
Pages 53-72

Speech Acts of Women in Simin Daneshvar’s Soovashoon Novel

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Volume 7, Issue 4 - Serial Number 28December 2024Pages 53-72

Volume 7, Issue 4 - Serial Number 28
December 2024
Pages 53-72