Literary interdisciplinary research
Saeedeh Tahiri Rustomi; Mandana Mangeli
Abstract
The present article examines the behavioural traits of the characters in the novel 'Autumn Is the Final Season’ by Naseem Marashi (born in 1363) which is based on the theory of traits propounded by Ramond Bernard Cattell (1905-1998). The main characters of the novel are three women named Leila, ...
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The present article examines the behavioural traits of the characters in the novel 'Autumn Is the Final Season’ by Naseem Marashi (born in 1363) which is based on the theory of traits propounded by Ramond Bernard Cattell (1905-1998). The main characters of the novel are three women named Leila, Roja and Shabana who have behavioural traits emanating from migration, family, emotions and works. One of the views related to personality can be called the theory of Ramond Bernard Cattell. This theory tries to describe a person’s traits that are caused by his behavioral personality. His formal traits are obvious and superficial and are of short duration. According to Raymond Cattell deep traits are embedded and more prominent in a person. Ramond Cattell enumerates sixteen factors which form the traits of a character. This article is a descriptive analysis of them and answers to the fundamental question that which type of character in the novel ‘Autumn Is the Final Season’ fits into the theory of Cattell. According to the result of my research which was conducted on Ramond Cattell’s theory which shows that the character in the novel happens to be more anxious and disturbed.
Hossein Rahmani
Abstract
Evidentiality concerns with how the speaker achieved the information and the way it was conveyed to the addressee. The languages which have evidentiality have an indication through which the hearer understands that whether the speaker has seen the act himself, heard it from someone, inferred or just ...
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Evidentiality concerns with how the speaker achieved the information and the way it was conveyed to the addressee. The languages which have evidentiality have an indication through which the hearer understands that whether the speaker has seen the act himself, heard it from someone, inferred or just assumed it. Even though Persian does not have evidentiality but it has some evidentiality strategies such as mood, perception verbs, quotations and passives, oaths and pronouns. The present study aims at investigating the relation between evidentiality and characterization in Pellekan, a play by Akbar Radi, so as to answer A) what evidentiality strategy dose the author use in characterization and B) what evidentiality strategy do the characters use in interaction with one another? In order to answer these questions, the dialogues in which the author informs his readers about a character and those in which the characters show their own charcaters in conversation have been investigated and based on the findings it was clarified that direct evidentiality was of greater use by both the author as well as the characters.
