Linguistic Representation of Body in Laylaneha and Duchenar; A Semiotic-Phenomenological Analysis

Document Type : Original Research

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1 Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature, Department Faculty of Humanities, Kosar University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran; 0000-0003-2737-5462
2 Master's student of Narrative Literature, Department Faculty of Humanities, Kosar University of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran.
10.48311/lrr.2026.116629.1018
Abstract
This research, by applying the theoretical model of semiotic-phenomenological analysis, deals with the linguistic analysis and typology of the body in selected of Laylaneha and Duchenar by Hassan Roshan. The main question is how the perceptual-sensory subject, through bodily actions and interaction with other subjects and objects, shapes the semantic system of language in the context of the lived experience of presence? The aim is to analyze the bodily semantic system as a phenomenal text and to examine the process of the subject's sensory perception during the lived experience of presence from a linguistic perspective. The present study is qualitative, descriptive-analytical, and relies on linguistic and semiotic tools. In these two collections, the body has become a linguistic platform for representing personal, romantic, social, and historical experiences. In Laylanaha, the body is crystallized in the realm of romantic and individual linguistic representations; but in Duchenar, the body is reinterpreted as historical and social memory through linguistic and narrative capacities. In both works, the types of body, physical, reference, self-identity, meta-body, mythical and prosthetic have a prominent presence. Laylaneha, focusing on linguistic representations of the romantic/living body, and Duchenar, emphasizing linguistic representations of the historical/political body, recreate two distinct modes of corporeality in contemporary poetry. In Roshan's poetry, the body is considered the main platform for recording and representing collective memory and political, social, and cultural history through language.

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