Document Type : Grammatical-rhetorical
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PhD student in Persian language and literature of Tabriz University
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Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language and Literature, Faculty of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Tabriz University, Tabriz, Iran
10.22091/jls.2025.12624.1683
Abstract
Nafthat al-Masdoor is among the valuable works of Persian language and literature, holding a special place among prose texts. One of the reasons for the significance of Nafthat al-Masdoor lies in its linguistic features, which have made this work not only historically important but also linguistically significant. By studying **Nafthat al-Masdoor** from this perspective, we encounter various linguistic features and foregrounding elements that have played a crucial role in shaping and enhancing the literary language of this book, creating a distinctive linguistic style. Foregrounding refers to the disruption of conventional language norms, leading to defamiliarization, which is one of the key factors in creating literary texts. Linguists identify two main causes of linguistic foregrounding: rule reduction (straw base) and rule addition (adding rules). In the present study, the authors have attempted to rely on Geoffrey Leech's theory to examine the linguistic foregrounding in Nafthat al-Masdoor across seven domains: lexical, syntactic, stylistic, semantic, temporal, phonetic, and dialectal. The findings of this research reveal that semantic deviations, in their broadest form—including the use of various literary devices and figures of speech, archaic structures, imagery, Quranic and literary references, and the application of different types of parallelism—have contributed to the linguistic foregrounding in Nafthat al-Masdoor, bringing its prose closer to poetry.
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