A Stylistic Analysis of “Nazar” in Ten Sonnets of Saadi Shirazi Based on Structural Semantics

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Allameh Tabataba"i University

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Structural semantics, based on Structural Linguistics, was affected by Ferdinand de Saussure's ideas which ensued many semantic studies. This approach explains the methodological study of meaning in the structure of text in terms of how linguistic units become meaningful. In this approach, the value of each linguistic unit is determined in relation to other linguistic units, and to examine the meaning of each unit, all relationships such as semantic contrast must be considered in semantic network analysis. The frequency of linguistic unit "Nazar" and its role in stylistic examination of Saadi's sonnets can show the significance of methodological study of these sonnets in relation to how the mentioned linguistic unit becomes meaningful. Excerpts from Saadi's sonnets provide us with a way to conduct a more detailed analysis of the semantic stylistics of Saadi's sonnets. This qualitative research explores the study of a literary text via a linguistic and stylistic method and aims to deal with the semantic implications of the "Nazar" unit in two semantic domains of love and mysticism and analyze it in a coherent semantic network.

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The Journal Of Linguistic and Rhetorical Studies
Volume 13, Issue 28
July 2022
Pages 187-227

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