Analysis of the speech of male and female characters in the story of the kingdom of Goshtasp based on the speech theory of John Searle

Subject Areas : Comparative Literature Studies

mah manzar Mollai ¹ , Kimia Tajnia ² , Nemat Esfahani Omran ³

1 - PhD student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Jiroft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Jiroft, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Jiroft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Jiroft, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Jiroft Branch, Islamic Azad University, Jiroft, Iran

Received: 2021-12-02 Accepted : 2021-12-02 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: Shahnameh, Goshtasp Kingdom, Speech Action, John Searle, Male-Female Conversation,

Abstract :

 Dialogue is one of the most important tricks in the field of fiction and the author in the present research in a descriptive-analytical and library method, with the aim of explaining the speech of male and female characters in the story of Goshtasp's kingdom in Shahnameh based on the theory of speech action Philosophy of language and mind seeks to clarify the fact that the male and female characters of the story of the kingdom of Goshtasp, when speaking in terms of their position and the audience, what speech action and for what purpose? In John Searle's theory of speech action, speech is divided into five declarative, persuasive, emotional, obligatory and declarative actions, which according to the aspect of the verb used in speech and how to use alternatives, indicators, as well as direct and indirect application of action. The speaker's ability to influence the audience can be measured. According to this theory, news sentences are not only the main and meaningful sentences of the language and the value of truth and falsity of all sentences is not possible; Because Ferdowsi's purpose in expressing action sentences is to describe his action, not to describe a situation. The results of this study indicate that women in the story of Goshtasp, due to lack of power, use more persuasive speech actions and the expressive and emotional actions used are more in line with persuasion of the audience than In this way, they indirectly persuade others (especially men and husbands) to achieve their desires. Also, declarative and commitment actions that require the direct action of the individual are less used.