Review and analysis of the story "Persian is Sugar" by Jamalzadeh based on critical stylistics

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Qom, Qom, Iran

2 Doctoral student of Persian language and literature at Qom University

10.30465/copl.2024.47251.4092

Abstract

In this article, the short story "Persian is sugar " from the collection of stories "Once upon a time" the first fiction of Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, considering the critical stylistic components of Leslie Jeffries, has been examined and analyzed. The main issue of the article is that with these components, recognizing the hidden layers of the text and discovering the relationships between "ideology", "power", and "critical discourse" can be done with more order and ease. The components of critical stylistics from Jeffries' point of view are: 1-Naming and describing 2-Representation of actions, events and situations 3-Synonymy and opposition 4- Exemplification and naming 5-Prioritization 6-Implicit meanings and assumption and implication 7-Negation 8-Making hypotheses 9-Presenting the words and thoughts of other participants 10-Representing time, place and society. According to the linguistic structure and social and cultural analyzes in this story, Jeffries' ten components have great efficiency and capability in the evaluation and analysis of this work and can provide significant findings for research. The representation of situations, events, and actions has a significant difference compared to other components in this story. Components such as representing society, creating hypotheses and expressing the thoughts of others have the least frequency in this story. The working method of this article is descriptive-analytical and comparative using library resources. This research has many innovations and novelties, which can be seen both in the method of investigation and analysis and in the quality of obtaining data and findings. One of the advantages of this method is mixing the issues of stylistics, criticism and grammar, and it is based on cultural and sociological analyzes that analyze between the superstructure and the deep structure of the language of the text.Jeffries intended components to objectify research and systematize research have more advantages compared to critical discourse analysis and other similar methods.

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Contemporary Persian Literature
Volume 14, Issue 1
June 2024
Pages 243-274

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