How children are represented in adult narrative literature from the perspective of critical discourse analysis

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of Computational Linguistics, Regional Information center for Science and Technology

2 Department of Linguistics, Fars science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University

10.30465/copl.2021.6153

Abstract

From the perspective of critical discourse analysis, this study examined the ways children are represented in the adult narrative literature. The novels of “Su va shun”,Simin Daneshvar (1348), “Turn off the Lights”, Zoya Pirzad (2001) and “My Bird”, Fariba Vafi (2002), were selected as data for this study. The paradigm used as the concept of representation of social actors by Van Leuven (1996). In order to analyze the data, discursive structures and interpretations were separated and counted as non- discursive structures. Then the frequency and percentage of discursive components and the amount of discord were determined. The results showed that the children were actively, dynamically and explicitly represented. They have become more individualized in these texts, and among the individual components a part of the naming component has been used more to represent them, reflecting the personal and individual identity of the children. Also, children were not subjected to gender discrimination in these works, and there was no significant difference between boys and girls.

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