جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "جنسیت گرایی" در نشریات گروه "ادبیات و زبان ها"

In sexism, the juxtaposition of words forms can elevate one gender above another and unsettle equality between genders. In the present work, sexism is examined in a corpus-based manner through qualitative and quantitative analysis of collocations of the words woman and man in Hamshahri Corpus version 2. In the present research which has been done on the basis of Baker’s (2006, 2010a, 2017) corpus-based approach, the collocations of the words man and woman have been identified using Antconc software functions of collocates and concordance and the data have been classified semantically. The results show the existence of sexism in the collocations of written Persian language; while both of the words man and woman co-occur with collocations having neutral-meaning, qualitative analysis of collocations categories reveals that women, in comparison to men are in lower position. Also, sexism against women is observed in categories like family, job, personal characteristics, art and crime.

In this paper, a number of films by two Iranian filmmakers as part of the linguistic corpus was analysed based on van Leeuwen's social semiotics. The attempt has been  to answer the questions, "what are the common and different elements of signs of sexism thought in Iranian cinematic texts based on the semiotics of language", and "how have these signs been able to indicate the centrality of sexism and socialism in the Iranian society?" The present study uses a descriptive-analytic method. Having a quantitative as well as a  qualitative study, the paper uses purposeful sampling to examine the modalities in films. Findings of the study showed unexpected results based on van Leeuwen's  model in the number of modalities used by female and male characters in Iranian female director films with a feminist perspective. A similar study was conducted on Iranian male director, and the results showed that the modalities used by male and female characters yielded the full-fledged expectation of Van Leeuwen's pattern with no dominant orientation between the two sexes, and the female and male characters in the film's story naturally used the expected modalities of the pattern used.

Sexism in language is a well-known discourse in linguistics. In sexist language, the choice of particular linguistic variations leads to gender bias in favor of one gender and against the other. Sexism has been widely researched through the corpus-based methods in international studies but it has not been investigated by analytical corpus processes in Iranian contexts. This study discusses sexism in Persian language word formation in Hamshahri Corpus version 2 based on Baker’s (2006, 2010, 2017) corpus-based approach. To this end, the words formed by the morphemes man and woman were selected as the representative words in each gender category and the frequency and concordance were explored using Antconc. The data were then examined by first assigning semantic values to the corpus and then running statistical tests. The results showed the existence of sexism in the word formation of the Contemporary Written Persian Language; it seems that the morpheme man is used more frequently than woman in forming words in Persian Language. Moreover, the findings showed that positive characters are represented by the morpheme man and negative characters are represented by the morpheme woman. This study can reveal parts of Iranian’s viewpoints of sexism in order to stop such a social problem.