Cohesion in Munajat Namih by the Saint of Harat

Abstract

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.