The Use of Vocabularies in Symphony of the Dead by Abbass Maroufi: from the language and Gender

Language is considered as one of the fundamental elements in fiction writing. One of the important issues in investigating language is paying attention to the relationship between gender and language. Most researchers believe that there is a significant difference between the men and the women language and writing. This article aimed at examining men and women language differences in the scope of the use of vocabularies from language and gender perspectives in the "Symphony of the Dead" written by Abbass Maroufi. The authors have tried to analyze the differences in the vocabularies used by women and men in this novel including variables such as color words, taboo words (vulgar and non-vulgar), swear words, affirmations , moderators, imperative and authoritative words, affective traits and words in the dialogues among the novel characters according to the linguistic scientific rules. Although Abbass Maroufi has created a language proportionate with his protagonists’ gender, he has not succeeded in the creation of a language proportional with his protagonists in some cases due to inattention to the scientific findings of sociolinguists, especially in terms of the relationships between language and gender.