The Colloquial Language in Ali Mohammad Afghani’s Works

Subject Areas : فصلنامه تخصصی زبان و ادبیات فارسی

ali dehghan ¹ , fatemeh hamam'chi ²

1 - دانشیار گروه زبان و ادبیّات فارسی، واحد تبریز، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تبریز، ایران
2 - کارشناس‌ارشد زبان و ادبیّات فارسی دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحد تبریز

Received: 2017-02-02 Accepted : 2017-02-02 Published : 2015-10-23

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Abstract :

     The history of story writing in Iran is also the history of a revolution in the language, which, after the Constitutionalism, approximated lay peoples’ speech and moved away from the bombastic and vain language of the court people. This feature can be seen in Ali Mohammad Afghan’s works. Based on style and structure, his stories are classified under the category of regional stories. In regional stories, describing local rituals and customs and speaking colloquially constitute the basic aspect of the story. Presenting a general conceptualisation of language and language varieties, the present article focuses on the use of colloquial language in Afghan’s novels.