Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Fatemeh Zamani ¹
• Ebrahim Kanani ²

¹ Assistant Prof in persian language and literature , university kosar of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran

² Associate Prof in Persian language and literature, Kosar university of Bojnord, Bojnord, Iran

Abstract

Linguistic highlighting, in various lexical, syntactic, temporal, dialectal, and semantic forms, plays a central role in literary creations. In the eco-poems, the poet's references to cultural, environmental, and ecological components lead to an increasing frequency of local words, resulting in dialectal highlighting. This research, employing a qualitative semiotics approach, examines the discursive functions of dialectal highlighting in contemporary poetry from North Khorasan. For this purpose, two collections of poetry, Dochenar and Laylanah (song selections) by Hassan Roshan (d. 1976), have been selected, in which a total of 328 local and dialectal words are used in Dochenar and Laylanah. These words are mainly centered around local names of places, food, clothing, and games, which activate multiple functions at the levels of discourse. From the perspective of the emotional function of discourse, these words express the poet's attachment to his birthplace and, on a cognitive level, help to represent his social and cultural identity. This creates an incremental structure in the tense syntax of the discourse that deepens the lived experience of the audience. In the sensory-perceptual dimension, the purposeful use of dialectal words, in a phenomenological way, causes a "presentation of the absent." By activating the subject's five senses in the process of receiving meaning, this presence transforms native objects into a "cultural icon" and, in a nostalgic atmosphere, evokes deep feelings such as pride, strength, and happiness in the speaker and the audience. This sensory-perceptual dynamic, beyond a simple representation, leads to the creation of a unique aesthetic experience. In this experience, local vocabulary, by creating a time of “aesthetic presence,” causes the speaker to break away from the objective world and connect with the inner world. The result of this process is the production of creative poetic meaning and images, and it expresses the poet’s unique “discursive subjectivity.

Keywords

• Dialect Foregrounding
• the semantics of discourse
• Laylaneha
• Do Chanar
• Roshan

Main Subjects

• ادبیات معاصر