Evidentiality in Sa'di's Poetry and Prose

A Corpus Stylistic Study
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-44362-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 242 g

Reihe: Iranian Studies

This study is the first to introduce evidentiality to the stylistic analysis of literary works, specifically that of the great Persian writer Sa'di, focusing on how he used linguistic means to illustrate a real or ideational world.

The authors begin by introducing the concept of evidentiality; its definition, its coding in Persian, the rationale behind evidentiality analysis, and semantic-pragmatic functions of evidentiality. The book highlights how evidentiality can be accounted for as a stylistic device to reveal the validity of a narration, as well as the author’s commitment and contribution to it. Three of Sa'di’s major works are analyzed – Bustan, Golestan and Sonnets – using Krippendoff's frequency approach. It is argued that Sa'di deployed an array of evidentials in his work, from direct visual evidentials in Golestan and Sonnets to heard and quoted evidentials in Bustan. To illustrate this, the book includes translations of Sa'di’s poetry and prose. In addition, the authors consider historical and contemporary manifestations of the Persian narrative style, as well as exploring the cultural concerns of the Persian speech community.

The book will appeal to general linguists, practitioners of pragmatics and stylistics, literary critics, and those interested in contrastive analysis of literature and cultural studies.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Behrooz

Mehrabi, Masoumeh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Evidentiality 2. Theoretical Considerations 3. Evidentiality in Sa'di's Masterpieces 4. Evidentiality in the Three Literary Works 5. Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Persian at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, as well as being an affiliate at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan. He received his PhD in linguistics from Allameh Tabatabaee University in 2004. His major fields of work are Persian linguistics and Iranian dialectology, as well as discourse analysis of drama and fiction. He is the author of the books Tense in Persian (2002), Farsi Biyamuzim/Let’s Learn Persian (2003), Persian for Dummies (2015), Pand-e Parsi/Listening Comprehension of Persian (2016), and Salam Doktor/Dialogue Activities of Persian.

Masoumeh Mehrabi is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Ayatollah Boroujerdi University in Boroujerd, Iran. Her main research interests include sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, stylistics, and discourse analysis. Her major publication in English about the Persian language is "Lexical Information of Persian Transitive Verbs during Listening Comprehension".