The University of Tehran Journal of Foreign Language Research 2588-4123 14 2 2024 06 21 A comparative study of the coding of deictic verbs and expressions and their interactive nature in the Persian language by analyzing "The Frog Story" and "Alice in Wonderland" and a series of video clips A comparative study of the coding of deictic verbs and expressions and their interactive nature in the Persian language by analyzing "The Frog Story" and "Alice in Wonderland" and a series of video clips 253 268 97838 10.22059/jflr.2024.375102.1121 FA Ali Jamali Department of English Language and Literature, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran 0000-0003-0882-797X Fatemeh Bashiri Department of English Language and Literature, Ilam Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran 0009-0005-0532-1318 Journal Article 2024 04 16 As stated by Matsumoto and Kawachi (2017), deixis is actually a line of a path in addition to a specific ground (i.e. the speaker) and for this reason, it is conceptually different from a path of motion. Indeed, deictic expressions exhibit a distinct set of behaviors from directional expressions (e.g., Up in English), line of path (e.g., TO), or trajectory plus conformation (e.g., INTO), and therefore deserve separate studies. In this article, we are going to examine deictic verbs and expressions in Persian language. For this purpose, after examining the lexicalization pattern of Persian, which is generally based on the analysis of The Frog Story (Mayer, 1969) and the Persian translation of the novel Alice in Wonderland (Carroll, 1865), we will evaluate how deictic expressions are coded in Persian in comparison with English, Japanese and Thai languages (Matsumoto et al., 2017), and if these items are interactive in nature in addition to the spatial role as reported by Matsumoto et al. (2017) regarding these components. Speakers of Persian language use these components more frequently when the movement is not only towards the speaker but also in his area which is defined by the limits of visibility and interaction, and also when the movement is accompanied by an interactive behavior such as greeting at the speaker. These findings are in line with the results of Akita and Matsumoto (2017). As stated by Matsumoto and Kawachi (2017), deixis is actually a line of a path in addition to a specific ground (i.e. the speaker) and for this reason, it is conceptually different from a path of motion. Indeed, deictic expressions exhibit a distinct set of behaviors from directional expressions (e.g., Up in English), line of path (e.g., TO), or trajectory plus conformation (e.g., INTO), and therefore deserve separate studies. In this article, we are going to examine deictic verbs and expressions in Persian language. For this purpose, after examining the lexicalization pattern of Persian, which is generally based on the analysis of The Frog Story (Mayer, 1969) and the Persian translation of the novel Alice in Wonderland (Carroll, 1865), we will evaluate how deictic expressions are coded in Persian in comparison with English, Japanese and Thai languages (Matsumoto et al., 2017), and if these items are interactive in nature in addition to the spatial role as reported by Matsumoto et al. (2017) regarding these components. Speakers of Persian language use these components more frequently when the movement is not only towards the speaker but also in his area which is defined by the limits of visibility and interaction, and also when the movement is accompanied by an interactive behavior such as greeting at the speaker. These findings are in line with the results of Akita and Matsumoto (2017). https://jflr.ut.ac.ir/article_97838_e041c229814809989e28e98f31267eec.pdf