SeyedAlireza Afshani; ali ruhani; Negin Naeimi
Abstract
Death is a social phenomenon studied by social scientists from different aspects. Meanwhile, in addition to demographic aspect,unexpected deaths,caused by accidents, drowning, fire, etc…, have consequent social and cultural aspects that have not received so much attention. Every day,many citizens ...
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Death is a social phenomenon studied by social scientists from different aspects. Meanwhile, in addition to demographic aspect,unexpected deaths,caused by accidents, drowning, fire, etc…, have consequent social and cultural aspects that have not received so much attention. Every day,many citizens are faced with unexpected deaths that bring about particular mental and social effects on the bereaved people.The present research aims to discover the process of the bereaved people’s deconstruction after a loved one’s death.To understand the process by applying a qualitative approach and the grounded theory method,we tried to discover and construct the bereaved people’s deconstruction.Data were gathered by theoretical sampling and deep interviews.The respondents were those bereaved people who experienced unexpected deaths of their loved ones in the traditional religious context of Yazd.The data were carefully analyzed using the processes of open coding, axial coding and selective coding.Then, the table of concepts and paradigmatic model were presented.The results reflect the fact that in facing with loss,people construct it mentally and socially,but over time,they try to revise their mourning face and gradually complete the process of their deconstruction by different strategies such as emotion regulation,mutual blame,and supportive expectations.
Reza Pishghadam; Aida Firooziyan Pour Esfahani; Ailin Firooziyan Pour Esfahani
Abstract
Considering the salient role of vocabularies in reflecting the cultural beliefs of a given society, the present study aims at examining the discursive functions of “death” and the related terms in the Persian language corpus, using Hymes's (1967) SPEAKING model. The reason we have chosen ...
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Considering the salient role of vocabularies in reflecting the cultural beliefs of a given society, the present study aims at examining the discursive functions of “death” and the related terms in the Persian language corpus, using Hymes's (1967) SPEAKING model. The reason we have chosen such concept is that not only can it vividly illustrate the existing cultural beliefs of a society, but also it can be examined from social and linguistic points of view. To this end, 673 contexts in which the death-related discourses have been used were recorded, and after analyzing the data based on the SPEAKING model, the social aspects of the discursive functions were extracted. The results revealed that the intention behind using death and its related terms among Persian speakers of Iran is rooted in the prevalence of morbid thoughts, death-seeking, necrolatry, love of sadness, and cherophobia.
