Textual cohesion special characteristics for knowing styles of Persian literature

The present research is an attempt to investigate and compare textual cohesion in khorasani and Iraqi styles. As such‚ the stories of ″Hasanak vazir″ and ″Afshin an Budolof from Tarikh Beyhaghi are examples of Khorasani style and stories of ″Shir and Ghav″ and ″Buf and Zagh″ from ″Kelileh and Demne″ as examples of Iraqi Style were analyzed and compared based on the model introduced by Halliday and Hassan (1976).
The results of the study indicated that in both styles the linking factors were used more than grammatical and lexical factors. In general‚ 39.82 % of the whole lexical items in ″Tarikh Beyhaghi″ were those that made textual cohesion possible. This number declined to 24.86% in Kelileh and Demneh. The chi-square test was also used in order to see whether the difference between cohesive elements in the two styles were significantly different or not. It was found out that in many cases the difference was significant leading to the conclusion that the Khorasani and Iraqi styles are significantly different in terms of textual cohesion.
According to the obtained results one can‚ in view of textual cohesion‚ consider special characteristics for Persian literature based on which the texts of Persian literature can be compared and classified.