The “Literary Language Research Journal” is a bilingual, double-blind, open-access periodical published by Allameh Tabataba’I University, recognized as a leading institution in humanities in Iran. This journal aims to provide an intellectual platform for national and international researchers with a focus on foundational topics in literary language. It covers a portion of the research advancements made in the field of literary language and strives to publish worthy articles that report significant findings in this domain.

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  • The essence, principles, and foundations of literary language
  • Critiques and theories of literary language
  • Examination of literary language criteria
  • Approaches and linguistic discussions in literary language
  • The relationship between literary language and other language genres
  • Historical developments in literary language
  • Comparative studies in literary language
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  • Stylistics of literary language
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Synchronic Componential Analysis of the Word Shādmānegi in Kalilah va Demnah and Critique of its Translation in Contemporary Rewritings

Aliakbar Samkhaniani; Ayoob Badavam

Volume 2, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 9-38

https://doi.org/10.22054/jrll.2024.81531.1096

Abstract
  Reading and understanding classical literary texts poses a challenge for many modern readers. Rewriting, considered a form of intralingual translation, serves as a method to convey the concepts of these texts to contemporary audiences. This research aims to extract and analyze the uses of the word shādmānegi ...  Read More

Elucidating the Characteristics of Women’s Writing in She, A Woman and Bānu’s Last Game

Fatemeh Elhami; Shahla Khalillollahi; Khalegh Gery

Volume 2, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 39-74

https://doi.org/10.22054/jrll.2024.80922.1081

Abstract
  Women's literature has emerged as a significant component of feminist criticism in contemporary literary discourse. This development followed the women's movement for equal rights and gained prominence in the mid-20th century. In Iran, the Constitutional Era brought transformations that allowed women ...  Read More

The Effects of Climate on Metaphorical Conceptualization in Poetry: A Comparative Analysis of the Conceptual Metaphor of "Sigh" in Persian, English, and Turkish Poetry

Mostafa Shahiditabar; Hossein Pourghasemian

Volume 2, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 75-98

https://doi.org/10.22054/jrll.2024.79398.1073

Abstract
  Introduction Poetry often reflects the geographical environment in which it is written. This influence can be seen in the choice of metaphors and imagery. For example, in his poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," William Butler Yeats uses the natural beauty of Innisfree to criticize the harshness of urban ...  Read More

Rhetorical and Narrative Literature: The Dual Criteria of Beauty in Persian Literary Prose Aesthetic

amin zamanvaziri

Volume 2, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 99-124

https://doi.org/10.22054/jrll.2024.80715.1079

Abstract
  Abstract Persian literary prose represents an independent stream from the domain of Persian poetry. While it bears clear artistic and social responsibilities, it also possesses an autonomous aesthetic system. In classical Persian literature, prose has generally been overshadowed by the artistic and ...  Read More

A Grammatical Analysis of the Particle "bar" in Early Persian Prose: 4th/10th to 6th/12th Centuries

hassan Dehghanipour

Volume 2, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 125-158

https://doi.org/10.22054/jrll.2024.79991.1076

Abstract
  Abstract This study investigates the evolution and semantic variation of the particle "bar" in Persian prose from the 4th/10th to the 6th/12th centuries AH. This period witnessed significant transformations in grammatical categories and the emergence of novel meanings, particularly within the domain ...  Read More

Types of Semantic Deviation in Nasrollāh Monshi's Kalilah va Demnah

Ali hassannezhad

Volume 2, Issue 1 , June 2024, Pages 159-182

https://doi.org/10.22054/jrll.2024.78924.1068

Abstract
  Abstract Language, as the primary medium of literature and communication, plays a crucial role in creating literary works. Among the various tools writers and poets use to harness language's power and enrich their work is semantic deviation, a concept that emerged with the formalist school of literary ...  Read More

The Structure of the Figure of Speech Istikhdām and its Identification on the Basis of Ellipsis

Mozdeh KamaliFard

Volume 1, Issue 1 , April 2023, , Pages 137-159

https://doi.org/10.22054/jrll.2022.66647.1013

Abstract
  Istikhdām is a rhetorical figure of speech based on double entendre or polysemy.  The ambiguity that exists in defining this figure of speech in Persian rhetorical books has led to inaccurate or wrong understanding of this figure and its examples. In this article, the author intends to offer a ...  Read More

Aesthetics in the poems of Rabia Qazdari

mohmmad reza Zaim Hosseini Anari

Volume 1, Issue 2 , June 2023, , Pages 167-184

https://doi.org/10.22054/jrll.2023.71650.1034

Abstract
  Aesthetics is an ability to better understand perceptions as well as phenomena such as music that causes a change in a person's mood and attitude. In fact, the definition of beauty can be very broad or very narrow. Some have tried to define beauty in an objective matter especially to search: for example, ...  Read More

Functions and Applications of Dvandva in Persian Literary Texts

Houshang Moradi; Mostafa Gorji; Ali Amini

Volume 1, Issue 1 , April 2023, , Pages 109-135

https://doi.org/10.22054/jrll.2022.67237.1016

Abstract
  In Persian, compound words that are produced by the structural pattern of “word + and + word = word” are called vāzhahʿaṭf, and naming the word as such emphasizes the compound nature of this type of construction in contrast to combination and coordinate syntactic group. In view of the ...  Read More

Narrative structures of Attar's Masnavies

habibollah abbasi; akram barazandeh

Volume 1, Issue 1 , April 2023, , Pages 9-28

https://doi.org/10.22054/JRLL.2022.55299.1001

Abstract
  Scholars of mystical poetry believe that a great number of Persian mystical Mathnavīs, especially the three wonderful works of Persian literature, namely Sanai’s Ḥadīqah al-Ḥaqīqah, ʿAttar’s Manṭiq al-Ṭayr and Mowlana’s Mathnavī Maʿnavī, have a common narrative structure ...  Read More

The Study of Word Order and Information Structure in The Fifth Century AH Prose Texts

Arsalan Golfam; MohammadJavad Borgh'ei

Volume 1, Issue 1 , April 2023, , Pages 29-54

https://doi.org/10.22054/jrll.2022.66381.1011

Abstract
  Persian texts of the earlier period, can be selected as a good case study in the field of linguistics. It is possible to look at the texts of this period through the window of functionalist frameworks and to describe its linguistic features in such a way as to become a stylistic research tool for further ...  Read More

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