Analyzing the representation of women in Azeri and Persian proverbs in Iran: from the perspective of critical discourse analysis

Subject Areas : Linguistics,dialectology,folklore,literature

Sepideh محمدی ¹ (دانشجوی دکتری زبان شناسی دانشگاه آزاد شاهرود)
Roya Sedigh Ziabari ² (استادیار گروه زبانشناسی ، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد شاهرود)

Received: 2023-07-31 Accepted : 2023-11-07 Published : 2023-08-23

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Abstract :

This article analyzes and interprets the position of women in Azeri and Persian proverbs in the framework of a critical kaftan analysis based on Farklough's model. This research is of a descriptive-analytical type, the purpose of which is to find out how women are represented in Azeri and Persian proverbs. The statistical population of this research is Turkish proverbs and Persian proverbs with the theme of women, which were purposefully collected from the books of Afshar (2016), Rahimi-Nia (2015) and Haqit Semnani (2000). The findings of the research show that the results show that the representation of women in Azeri proverbs is more neutral and the power between men and women is almost equally divided. But the representation of women in Persian proverbs has been negative in most cases. Also, the most representation of women in Azeri proverbs with 44.63% are related to girls and the most representation of women in Persian proverbs are related to women in the role of wife (63.41%).There are many proverbs about women and their place in the home and society, and by studying them, you can understand the cultural and social position of women in the past and today. In this article, in general, women are represented in Azeri and Persian oral literature with the approach of Farklough's critical discourse analysis. The data under investigation is a collection of proverbs of these two languages that were published in the books of Afshar (1396), Rahiminia (1395) and Hechit Semnani (1400).