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Nikkhoo A, jalaliy Y. Structural Analysis of Epic Language in the Comprehensive Scroll of Rhapsodists Known as “Haft Lashkar” (the Seven Corps). CFL 2015; 3 (5) :101-133
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As the former of the structure of story, language is significantly important in the structural analysis. Based on this viewpoint, language structure and the way it is used, as well as the connection between the aesthetics and ultra-linguistics are specifying its type in relation with the general concept of the literary work. Also the epic language, as the basic foundation of these texts, prospers structural potentialities like word usability, syntactic of utterance, and useful intonation proper with the epical atmosphere and feelings in different levels such as vocal, semantical, etc.
In oral literature, along with having stories from a simple and pure language, presence of rhapsodists and elocutionists and their interference and distort together with new elements ingression in the form of “Scrolls” compilation have increased more and more the use of epical language capacities linked to the main context of scrolls. The “Haft Lashkar” (the Seven Corps) is also one of the Rhapsodists’ Comprehensive Scrolls (RCS) during the Qajarid era of which the time of writing goes back to the year 1292 (Lunar Hijri) (almost 1871 A.D.), and it is originally the name of one of the famous rhapsodic battle-narrations, which was applied to one of the RCSs due to its fame.
Therefore, considering the general concept of the currently discussed work in this paper, its epical structure has been analyzed and checked from two levels:, vocal and Syntactic levels. Using bursting-obstructive phonemes and long Syllable structures along with high-frequency short vowels in the vocal level has made the epical atmosphere and feeling more tangible for the readers. In syntactical structure of the utterance, the priority of the verb and displacing the other elements of the sentence, associating the elements of the same function, as well as creating areas via the rhapsodist’s exploitation from the drama tune, the skills of discourse-movement and the oral techniques are all considered as the elements of forming an epical language. Moreover, the musical characteristics of the oral narration like the height of the sound, using long and loud vowels at the end of the questions and vocative sentences have led to the enhancement of the rising voice of the discourse and eventually, the epical language.
In oral literature, along with having stories from a simple and pure language, presence of rhapsodists and elocutionists and their interference and distort together with new elements ingression in the form of “Scrolls” compilation have increased more and more the use of epical language capacities linked to the main context of scrolls. The “Haft Lashkar” (the Seven Corps) is also one of the Rhapsodists’ Comprehensive Scrolls (RCS) during the Qajarid era of which the time of writing goes back to the year 1292 (Lunar Hijri) (almost 1871 A.D.), and it is originally the name of one of the famous rhapsodic battle-narrations, which was applied to one of the RCSs due to its fame.
Therefore, considering the general concept of the currently discussed work in this paper, its epical structure has been analyzed and checked from two levels:, vocal and Syntactic levels. Using bursting-obstructive phonemes and long Syllable structures along with high-frequency short vowels in the vocal level has made the epical atmosphere and feeling more tangible for the readers. In syntactical structure of the utterance, the priority of the verb and displacing the other elements of the sentence, associating the elements of the same function, as well as creating areas via the rhapsodist’s exploitation from the drama tune, the skills of discourse-movement and the oral techniques are all considered as the elements of forming an epical language. Moreover, the musical characteristics of the oral narration like the height of the sound, using long and loud vowels at the end of the questions and vocative sentences have led to the enhancement of the rising voice of the discourse and eventually, the epical language.
Received: 2015/09/9 | Accepted: 2015/08/23 | Published: 2015/09/9
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