Investigating the Effect of Gender on Content in Goli Taraghi’s Works Based on Lakoff Theory

One of the branches of sociolinguistics is gender linguistics, which examines the effect of the author’s gender on the content of the work. In this article, inductive and analytical methods of feminine and masculine language in the collection of Goli Taraghi’s works are compared based on the theories of social linguists and from the perspective of grammar, in order to evaluate the effect of the author’s gender on the story language and his/her level of success in creating a language appropriate to the gender of homosexual and heterosexual characters. For this purpose, female and male languages in the field of grammar were examined based on the following variables; Vocabulary such as: taboo words and color words, and sentences such as: modifiers and verifiers. The findings show that characters’ language is influenced by the author’s gender, and the clichés of feminine language are repeated more frequently in this work. Based on the above variables it was also determined that the author was able to use a language appropriate to the gender of the characters in many ways. In cases where there is no proportion between language and gender, especially in female characters, it is largely because of the author’s spirit and intent, to show the desire of women against the domination of a patriarchal ruling society.