Bakhtinian Ontology as Evidenced by Some Poetical Specimensin Farsi Language

Subject Areas : Research in English Language Pedagogy

Behrooz  Azabdaftari ¹ (Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran)

Received: 2015-05-09 Accepted : 2015-08-02 Published : 2015-08-02

Keywords: Farsi Language, Bakhtin, philosophy, poem,

Abstract :

This paper represents an attempt to explore Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas in the process of interpretation of some selected Farsi poems by a few contemporary Iranian poets. In so doing, the paper first seeks to cast a rapid glance at Bakhtin's era, which shaped his literary philosophical views then it continues with a brief discussion of some of the characteristic features of his ideology, namely intertextuality, heteroglossia, dualism, and carnivalesque. While dealing with the pragmatic meaning of the poems, the theme of centripetal and the centrifugal forces of language was addressed in a bid to illustrate the fact how the poet by deviating from the conventional codes of language system, i.e. by estrangement, manages to convey his intentional meaning that would have otherwise ceased to fascinate the reader. Finally, the decontextualized rationality in order to highlight the significant role of voice in sociocultural approach, the legacy of Vygotsky, to the genesis of mind, which goes a long way in the interpretive process of poetry were discussed.

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