Investigation of emotional and literary roles in Khosrow and Shirin Nizami Ganjavi based on Roman Jacobsen's communication theory

Subject Areas : Persian language and literature texts

Zinab Noori Alaviche ¹ , Farzaneh Sorkhi ^{2 *} , Shabnam Hatampour ³ , Faraydoon Tahmasbi ⁴

1 - PhD student, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran.
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran.

Received: 2024-11-22 Accepted : 2025-01-27 Published : 2025-09-23

Keywords: Nizami, Jacobson's communication theory, Persuasive role, Referential role, Layla and Majnun,

Abstract :

. message, context, and contact, which create different roles in poetry. In each of the linguistic roles of Jacobson's theory, the audience encounters specific literary signs and is able to reach a new meaning with the help of these roles. In military poems, similes, contrasts, metaphors... are seen a lot and these rhetorical techniques give great value to his poetry. One of the linguistic roles in Layla and Majnun Nizami, Dhande is a persuasive and referential role. In the poems of Layla and Majnun, Nizami communicates with the audience with the help of poetry, which is actually a text, and persuasive and referential roles are observed in the form, the message of the theme, and the audience according to Jacobson's communication model. Nizami based on the persuasive roles and Reference encourages the audience and expresses both the content and the context of the message. This article investigates the role of persuasion and reference in Layla and Majnun Nizami in a descriptive-analytical way and using library sources and the result of the effect of the message and the poem. The results of the research show that the persuasive role is widely used in Layla and Majnun's poems, and Nizami uses the persuasive role in order to encourage and persuade the audience to do something or forbid them from doing something.   that Nizami has used the referential role to express the content of the context and convey the message to the audience.