Signs of Feminine Language in the Bayatis of Azerbaijan

Subject Areas : Persian the literature

Ziba  Esmaeili ¹ (Tarbiat Dabir Shahid Rajaei in Tehran, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Tehran, Iran.)

Received: 2021-12-17 Accepted : 2022-02-18 Published : 2022-03-21

Keywords: sign, feminine language, Azerbaijan Bayati,

Abstract :

The aim of the present study was to retrieve the signs of feminine language in the Bayati of Azerbaijan. The statistical population of the study was 4567 Bayaties. The sample of the study was the written and linguistic feminine signs of the Bayaties of Azerbaijan. The research design was discourse qualitative study and the method was descriptive-analytical. In order to obtain the data of the research, based on the library studies, the poems of women were retrieved through the linguistic symbols used in the poems. After presenting the descriptions and the library information the data were analyzed analytically. The results showed that some of the Bayaties had explicit verbal cues indicating the female gender of the poet. In some of the Bayaties, the poetess's femininity was revealed by examining the hidden layers of the text. In Bayaties, while talking about topics such as love, expressing life problems, glory and complaint, issues related to marriage, etc., women revealed their gender with obvious or hidden allusions, and in lullabies, inner desires and aspirations. They expressed themselves. Based on the results 3495 Bayaties had no gender symbol. 749 Bayati had a clear gender symbol, of which 508 Bayati had a masculine connotation and 241 had a feminine connotation. Therefore, 82% of the poems had no gender symbol, 12% of the poems had a male symbol and 6% of the poems had a female symbol.

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