نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 استادیار زبان و ادبیات فارسی، دانشگاه الزهرا، تهران، ایران (نویسنده مسئول)
2 دانشیار زبانشناسی، دانشگاه الزهراء، تهران، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Repartee, as a linguistic‐cultural phenomenon, occupies a central role in Sufi discourse, serving as a pivotal interactive act within conversational turn-taking. It functions as a strategic mechanism for challenging social norms, managing face, and conveying nuanced messages within Sufi contexts. This study employs a mixed-methods approach, utilizing Béal and Mullan’s (2013) four-dimensional model—which comprises speaker/target/audience interplay, linguistic mechanisms, pragmatic functions, and interactional positioning—to systematically extract and analyze 184 instances of repartee from Attar’s Mathnawī. Findings reveal that in the speaker/target/audience dimension, repartees are predominantly produced by socially subordinate speakers, with a marked listener-oriented focus. In the linguistic mechanisms dimension, repartees exhibit a sophisticated interplay of traditional rhetorical devices (e.g., puns, metaphors, and rhetorical reversals such as qalb al-maṭlab) and discursive strategies, including conceptual reframing and incongruity, thereby enhancing their aesthetic and semantic complexity. Analysis of pragmatic functions indicates a dual role, whereby repartees both disrupt existing social hierarchies and reinforce social order through tension mitigation and indirect communication. Finally, the interactional positioning dimension demonstrates the predominance of reactive repartees in generating dynamic exchanges. This research advances our understanding of repartee in classical Persian texts, offering novel insights for cross-cultural studies of humor and interaction. They offer a robust foundation for future scholarly inquiry.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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