A comparative study of similarities rhetorical discussion “connotative meaning” in "padeshah va kanizak" - an allegorical story of Mawlana- with Halliday’s systematic functional grammar

Subject Areas : Research Allegory in Persian Language and Literature

Fatemeh Salehi ¹ , Ahmad Zakeri ²

1 - PhD Student of Department of Persian Language and Literature Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
2 - Associate Professor and Faculty Member of Department of Persian Language and Literature, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

Received: 2015-05-29 Accepted : 2015-09-10 Published : 2015-11-22

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Abstract :

Ilm-ol-Ma’a:ni, as one of the main branches of Islamic rhetoric, has a wide scale relation with linguistics and theories on modern literary criticism and its branches. M. A. Halliday is one of the renowned researchers of the school of linguistics in Britain whose “systematic functional grammar” (SFG) has many similarities with rhetorical discussions of “Xabar”, “Insha”, “connotative meaning”, … of Ilm-ol-Ma’a:ni. This paper intends to use the “padeshah va kanizak” - an allegorical story of Mawlana Jalal ad - Din - to study and introduce similarities and overlays between rhetorical discussion of “connotative meaning” and Halliday’s systematic functional grammar.