Scrutinizing the Social Functions of the Verbal Communication of Hadiqeh Sanai in Comparison with the Illustrated Masnavi Molavi Available in Astan Quds Razavi

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD student in Persian language and literature, Imam Khomeini Memorial Branch in Rey, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Imam Khomeini Memorial Branch, Rey City, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Imam Khomeini Memorial Branch, Rey, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

10.22034/ias.2020.251325.1372

Abstract

Language in the form of verbal communication pursues goals and motivations and this depends on the intention of the speaker of the verbal communication. The great poets of the Persian language have not been exempted from this and have benefited from verbal communication in the form of their poetry, stories and rhymes. One of the functions that verbal communication can have in the form of language roles in Jacobsen's view are social functions. In this research, the author has attempted to investigate the social functions of verbal communication in Hadiqeh of Sana'i and Masnavi Molavi. Analyzing the social functions of verbal communication in the two mentioned poetic masterpieces in a descriptive-analytical way exposed the social functions of verbal communication including the act of commanding the good and forbidding the bad, encouragement of mankind, pursuing awareness or determination and the promotion of rich educational and mystical concepts.
Research aims:

Examining the social functions of verbal communication in Hadiqeh Sanai.
Comparing the social functions of verbal communication in Hadiqeh Sanai with the illustrated Masnavi of Molavi,

Research questions:

What are the social functions of verbal communication in Hadiqeh Sanai and Masnavi Molavi?
What are the coordinates of the social functions of verbal communication in Hadiqeh Sana'i and Masnavi Molavi?

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