There is scarce systematic research on the role of genres and their associated discourse features in Information Structure and its syntactic representations in Persian. The current descriptive, corpusbased study, therefore, aimed to investigate three different genres of Persian spoken language; that is, political, scientific and daily conversation, in terms of their Information Structure as realized through four syntactic devices of clefting, pseudo-clefting, passive and preposing. To this purpose, 1000 different utterances related to each of the mentioned genres, were extracted from the multi-media archive of IRNA (Iranian News Agency) website and daily conversations of the researchers' family members and friends, based on Lambrecht's theoretical framework in modeling the Information Structure. The collected data were then transcribed, the syntactic devices were identified, and descriptive statistics were used to see how the above syntactic devices are represented in each genre type. The results revealed that the devices are represented differently in the three genres of political, scientific, and daily conversations. This finding may be of interest to linguists and language theoreticians.
Abstract-Today, Linguistic researches on literature play an important role in studying each language. Linguistic analysis of literature has interested critics to give a better knowledge of literary texts and their stylistic features via different linguistic approaches. This paper aims at investigating textual cohesion in "Munajat Namih" by Khajih Abd-Ollah Ansari, the poet and mystic in ninth and tenth century, based on Halliday and Hasan (1985,1976). Having selected 30 cases of Munajats 1 from Munajat Namih to discover cohesive devices, we have calculated the frequency of their functions and concluded that the most basic cohesive devices in it are personal pronouns. Repetition of the same word is ranked in the second place, and additives are ranked in a third place. Furthermore, collocation and verbal ellipsis are from among important cohesive devices in Munajat Namih. In fact, because of its being a poetic and mystic prose, the cohesive devices had been used in the form mentioned.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.