Stylistics of Syntactic Layer in the Story of Samak-e Ayyar

Abstract

In stylistics, surface structures are very important. The surface structure that the author chooses from possible surface structures to express his view of deep structure causes to produce sub-meanings, resonances, stylistic, and rhetorical devices. Thus, the syntactic structure of a text plays an important role in its style. The story of Samak-e Ayyar is one of the most prominent championship chivalry written in the sixth century. Using the descriptive-analytic method, this study examines the syntactic layer of the tale and its proportion to the theme. The most important features are artistic conciseness; high frequency of verbs in sentences; abundance of short sentences, independent and dependent sentences; the beginning of verbs, displacement part of sentences because of rhetorical motive, the abundance of active and state verbs, and creating active voice, use of prefixed verbs, the emergence of grammatical mood in verbs of sentences, dominant of the indicative mood, rising and falling intonation in speech. Also, linking sentences are a mixture of discrete and coherent styles that give the story some kind of movement and fluency. It can be said that the syntactic structure of this story is proportional to its theme and plays a key role in its conveyance of meaning, clarity, enjoyment, and acceptance.

Keywords

• samak-e ayyar
• style
• syntactic layer
• layered stylistics