Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Mohammadreza Amini

professor in Persian language and literature Shiraz university Iran

Abstract

One of Saussure's key ideas is to emphasize the importance of temporal or linear character of language and its functions in various levels. In recent years, a group of linguists, based on temporality, founded the chronosyntaxe [on-line syntax] as a new and effective approach. We believe that by a such detailed concentration to the position of successive parts of speech chain one can determine precisely their role in creating the beauty and eloquence of Persian poetry. Based on this principle and taking into account the syntax choice freedom in Persian language, especially in poetry, this article has tried to propose a new kind of rhetorical analysis. In this method, inspired by traditional literary studies and the formalist theory, in the first stage, we study the smallest changes in the position of each element for revealing their literary and rhetorical reasons. In the second stage, using the principles and methods of cognitive poetics, we try to show the role of each of these changes in the meaning and influence that the audience receives from the poem. The Analyzed poetical samples indicate that the proposed method is effective in identifying and justifying rhetorical structures. Furthermore, the logical coherence of this method makes it valuable for various applications usable in different fields such as both general and specialized Persian language teaching, speaking, singing, literary text correction, and translation.

Keywords

• Saussure
• chronosyntaxe
• linguistics of poetry
• rhetorical analysis
• language analysis of poetry
• correction of literary texts

Main Subjects

• متون نظم