ABSTRACT
Today, it is believed that citizens of Iran are using a language that is, more than decades past, peppered with violent (angry) words. The findings of this study show that the violence rate, or use of angry words in Persian has indeed varied in its occurrence frequency in the past five decades. It supposes that social and political events factor in on this pattern. The data for this study was collected from movies, novels and short stories, and newspapers of the past fifty years. By studying the metaphors and adjectives, we tried to establish the interaction between social events, violence in language, and cognitive patterns in each decade.
