University of Tehran

Post-Doc, Department of Linguistics

Persian Literature and Linguistics

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Leila Sadeghi (born 1977) is an Iranian writer who is part of the postmodern movement of creative writing in Iran. She is a novelist and flash-fiction writer in a new style.

Leila Sadeghi is a scholar in the fields of literary linguistics and discourse analysis. She is a Ph.D. student in linguistics at the University of Tehran, Iran, from 2011 till now. She attended Allameh Tabatabai University for her undergraduate studies, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Persian Literature in 1999. After publishing her first book in 2000, she attended Azad University, where she earned her second B.A. in English Translation (2005) and then M.A in Linguistics (2008). Her M.A. thesis is titled “The Discursive Functions of Silence in Iranian Contemporary Fiction”. This thesis explored the functions of absent elements such as covert speech in short stories. Silence as a hidden language acts to say things indirectly and without speech and narrates the story by using symbol, metaphor and other rhetorical devices. These can be viewed as a kind of silent language, because of the deferment of meaning.

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