نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
Semiotics is an interdisciplinary field that examines the mechanisms of meaning-making in verbal and non-verbal systems, reading every phenomenon as a social sign. Drawing on Pierre Guiraud’s social semiotics, this study comparatively investigates the representation of women in Shazdeh Ehtejab and The Last Train to Istanbul. The research adopts a descriptive–analytical method and is based on extracting linguistic, bodily, and behavioral signs from the texts. The findings show that in Ayşe Kulin’s novel, women, within a historical crisis, become symbols of resistance through ethical and social acts; whereas in Houshang Golshiri’s novel—whose patriarchal and aristocratic structure can be interpreted as an extension of deep-rooted Iranian cultural traditions and is also applicable to the traditional context of Cultural Khorasan—women fluctuate in an enclosed space between obedience and awareness, and their resistance is formed mainly at the level of language and the mind. Overall, the results indicate that the body, speech, and rituals in both works function as tools for representing power structures and feminine identity, and that social semiotics provides an effective framework for analyzing the relationship between women, language, and society across diverse cultural contexts.
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