analysis of pain-descriptionsentences in persian based onhalliday'smodel

pain is a phenomenon experienced more or less by all people during their lives. since sufferers usually use language as the most important human communication tool to inform others about their pains, sentences describing pain and studying them linguistically may reveal some points. in this paper, after a short introduction to the subject and reviewing the literature, we take one of the systematic methods for analyzing the language of pain presented by m. k. halliday as the basis of our analysis. in this approach, pain is expressedthrough a process, a noun phrase or an adjective phrase. then, the data comprised of conversations between a doctor and 80 patients in mashhad will be analyzed according to halliday’s method. the analysis shows that some of the introduced processes have not been used by the persian speaking patients to describe their pains; moreover, an additional form for pain description is observed in the data, namely pain description using an adverb phrase.