“The Linguistic Study of Prose Style in “Buf-e-Kur” by Sadegh Hedayat an Iranian writer with respect to the Frequency of Different Types of Deviation.”

ABSTRACT: This study is an attempt to find out the frequency of eight kinds of linguistic deviation in a novel called "Buf-e-kur" by “Sadegh Hedayat” an Iranian short story writer. Deviation as a foregrounding means is a creative use of language that a writer selects to surprise his readers. He defamiliarizes his writing for the readers and creates novelty by deviating from the norms of literary conventions or the norms of the everyday speech. The writers of this paper have tried to analyze the frequency of deviation in the aforementioned novel on the basis of Leechʹs frame work and they’ve investigated all 3000 existing propositions in details. The charts show the exact percentage of different deviations which were manipulated by the novel writer. Several examples are also added. The presence of kinds of deviation and different frequency of each type of deviation were firstly under questioned. It has been hypothesized that there can exist eight kinds of deviation with different frequencies. Conclusion revealed that eight sorts of deviation exist in this novel with different frequencies. The highest frequency of deviation belongs to the grammatical deviation in 289 propositions which equal to 23 percent with consideration to the other types of deviation.