A Study of the Semantic Functions of the Exclamatory Sentences in Khaghani's Quasidas

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Master's student, University of Kurdistan

2 Professor of Persian Language and Literature, University of Tehran

10.29252/kavosh.2010.2498

Abstract

Khaghani's Quasidas follow different purposes, ranging from eulogy to reproof and exhortation. Apparently, this implies inconsistency and paradox; but the controlling voice of Khaghani, with his characteristic subtlety and precision of mind, endows his work with an organic unity in which language and content are inseparably joined. To discuss the nature of this unity we have examined the exclamatory sentences applied in his Quasidas. Exclamatory sentences are considered very important in semantics. Our particular interest in exclamatory sentence is due to the fact that they have no truth value. Referring to no external fact, and expressing only its speakers thought and emotion an exclamatory sentence provides no ground for any discussion of its truth or falsity. We have classified the exclamatory sentences of interrogation and imperative into two categories of the grammatical and the semantic. Only occasionally has Khaghani used exclamatory sentences in their original meaning. Most of these sentences express a secondary meaning. In this paper Khaghani's exclamatory sentence are classified into different categories of semantic functions assigned to them by their speaker. A statistical analysis of the frequency of different semantic functions assigned to Khaghani's exclamatory sentences provides an explanation of the author's style and his purpose in composing Quasidas on different matters.
 

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Journal of Kavoshnameh in Persian Language and Literature
Volume 10, Issue 19
March 2010
Pages 123-152

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