Religious Elements in Everyday Language and Semiotics of Iranian Ordinary People in Safavid- Qajar Period
Subject Areas : The Journal of Islamic History and Civilisation
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Keywords: everyday life, everyday language, general Semiotics, Safavid-Qajar Iran, ordinary people, oaths, mendacity,
Abstract :
Traditional system of education in Safavid- Qajar Iran based onteaching of the Qur'an and other Scriptures had led to create a largenumber of expressive units in everyday language of people, whetherthey were literate or illiterate, and in written literature. In addition,those educations had basic influence and reflections in the society in away that the Qur'anic phrases and religious formulas had formed agreat part of the practiced language of the people. Furthermore, aconsiderable part of non- lingual expression styles of Iranians hadbeen influenced or essentially created by the permanent presence ofreligious teachings in the context of everyday life through whichsimultaneously the general semiotic units of social relations of peoplehas been defined in a religious cultural framework. In their dailyinterrelations- greetings, blessings, curses, execrations, oaths, etc. -people have been accustomed to use a vast variety of sacred namesand religious phrases, expressions and formulas and moreover forcreation of expressive mechanisms they came to understand andinterpret many actions and non-lingual signs by means of a religioninstitutionor religion- developed cognitive context.
