The Structural-Communicative Pattern of Hadiqa's Tales

Abstract

Hadiqa is the first significant collection of verse in Persian. In this great work, Sanai addresses mystical subjects and elaborates on Islamic moral principles. To furnish his subject matter with more examples and details and make it comprehensible to common people he has made use of the narrative form. This article draws upon the communicative model of the Russian linguist and literary theorist, Roman Jakobson, to elucidate the role of Hadiqa’s tales in the fulfillment of its didactic goals. The six constitutive factors that make up any speech event in Jakobson’s model are the addresser (sender), addressee (receiver), message, context, code and contact. According to Jakobson, these six elements have distinct functions and in each speech event one of these functions is dominant. The analysis of the addresser, addressee and context elements and their functions in Hadiqa’s tales indicates that the referential function is the most significant and dominant function in this work and so communication orients towards context .Then the conative and emotive functions are dominant and reinforce the effect of narrator’s speech.

Keywords

• Sanai
• Hadiqa
• Tale
• Communicative Model