Mostafa Moosavi; Siavash Goodarzi
Volume 6, Issue 2 , June 2017, , Pages 57-74
Abstract
Every speech appears in an extra-textual context that functionalist linguists call it the Context of Situation and is known as "the requirement of situation" in Islamic rhetoric. As ...
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Every speech appears in an extra-textual context that functionalist linguists call it the Context of Situation and is known as "the requirement of situation" in Islamic rhetoric. As the Functionalist Linguists suggest, the ones (the speaker and the audiences) who participate in a bilateral speaking action are both parts of the Context of Situation. The author addresses the audience in his speaking. He can make a dialogue by giving to the audience a participant role, commenting, and asking his opinion; or he can say something and bring his speech to an end unilaterally, considering no actual role for his audience in this interaction. Recognizing the linguistic difference between Mowlavi's preaching and non-preaching texts is the main issue of present paper: What is the effect of context variation and audience change on the Mowlavi's interaction with the audience and also on his attitude when expressing something in the text? So, implementing Halliday’s Functional Grammar theory, the affecting factors form the interpersonal metafunction in two works (Fihi Ma Fihi and Maktubat as a preaching and a non-preaching work, respectively) of Mowlavi have been studied. Meanwhile, Subjects, interactive speech functions, and modal elements have been analyzed.
