The Study of 'communicative acts' in a figurative tale in First Book of Masnavi Ma'navi (a case study on negotiations of the Fifth Story of Masnavi based on Haberma's Communicative Act
Subject Areas : Research Allegory in Persian Language and Literature
1 - Assistant Professor Persian Language and Literature, Payam e Noor University, Iran
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The 'dialogue democracy' is a 20th century theory claimed by German philosopher and sociologist Jurgen Habermas. This dialog is formed in a 'general domain' with the 'free participation of talented citizens'. Its interaction toll is 'general communicative language', and it is conducted to arrive at 'understanding' or 'acceptance of better argumentation'. Habermas' theory has gained its reputation as the 'communicative act' in the contemporary political literature. In the figurative story of 'Lion and Nakhjiran', Molavi outlines a negotiation which is comparable with that theory. As such, the present article, first deals briefly with concepts such as 'critical theory of Habermas', 'general domain' , as well as the 'general communicative language'. Then, through the analysis of the negotiations made in the story of Lion and Nakhjiran, it concludes that; the first negotiation is more compatible with Habermas' dialog democracy, and as the story goes ahead, its communicative act decreases and its political and strategic shades become stronger. The political shade is an internal layer of the studies figurative story.
