HOW ‘NAMING’ REPRESENTS WOMEN AND MEN IN BOZORG ALAVI’S SHORT STORIES: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

This study tries to investigate men and women’s social statuses through critical discourse analysis in Bozorg Alavi’s (1381,1385/2002,2006) short stories. To this end, four short stories were selected and all the ‘names’ used by men and women about each other were taken and analyzed based on Hodge and Kress’s (1996) “naming” model. The results of this study show that men have higher status than women in these stories and they have negative attitudes towards women while women have less power, think positively about men.