The Function of Metalinguistic Communicative Performance in Mostafa Mastour's Stories

Mostafa Mastour is one of the contemporary novelists whose fictional works have been welcomed by addressees and critics and some of his works have been translated to many languages. In the present study the reflection of metlinguistics performance and its major functions in Mostafa Mastour's stories (love on the sidewalk, the pig's bone and leprous hands, some creditable narratives, the story of a love without V O E, Im omniscient, Im not a bird, kiss God's gorgeous face) will be analyzed with an interdisciplinary approach. Metalinguistic communication includes considerable content of the narration of story and they include body language such as movement and hints, gestures and the manners of eyes. In this article in addition to the importance of non-verbal communications in story-writing and their role in formation of the elements of the story such as personalization, theme and different functions of non-verbal behaviors such as emphatic, supplementary, substitutionary, refuting functions will be examined and it will be clarified which functions have been paid more attention to in Masrour's stories and what role non-verbal performance play in formation and advancement of his narration of stories.The result of this research indicates that the substitutionary function in Mastour's stories is more salient than other functions. Among the functions that are introduced for the manner of eyes, the statement of feelings is more widespread. Moreover, themes like indifference, loneliness, grief, disquiet and anxiety are understood from non-verbal perspective.