Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 17، number In Volume 10، Junuary 2025 ، issue Number 104

Examination of phonetic processes in the book Nozhat al-Qulob by Hamdullah Mostowfi Qazvini

Seyedreza Hosseini Yakta , Sepideh Sepehri (Author in Charge), Maryam Amirarjmand

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Phonetic processes are the result of the effect of sounds on each other and the transformation of consonance that occurs when they are combined in the speech chain. These processes are carried out according to linguistic and literary rules, such as conformity to the law, the principle of less effort, analogy, poetic necessity, simplification, stylization of speech. The purpose of this research is to investigate phonetic processes in Hamdullah Mostofi"s book Nezhat al-Qulob.

METHODOLOGY: The method of this research is descriptive-analytical based on the method of document analysis and content analysis, and the statistical population is the book Nozha al-Qulob by Hamdallah Mostofi.

FINDINGS: Nozhat al-Qolub is one of the historical-geographical works that, in addition to providing important information about the different regions of Iran of that period, has outstanding literary and linguistic features. The grammatical and lexical structure of the book Nozhat al-Qolub has been heavily influenced by the Pahlavi and Farsi languages, and the author has paid great attention to these phonetic processes throughout the book.

CONCLUSION: Phonetic process in the book Nozha al-Qulob in the forms; Abdal (substitution), al-Yut (simplification), tarkhim (abbreviation), al-Khalb are used. The change of vowels is in two forms: change in consonants and change in adjacent and non-adjacent vowels, reduction in the form of initial, middle and final reduction (reduction) and the phonetic process of addition or increase (addition) also in the form of addition at the beginning of the word: add in the middle of the word: add It is at the end of the word. In fact, the phonetic transformations in the meaning of reduction, abdal, tarkhim, heart, and carving in Hamdallah Mostofi"s Nazha al-Qulob have various reasons, the most important of which is to simplify and avoid the heaviness of pronunciation.

Keyword
Nozhat al-Qulob , Hamdullah Mostowfi , phonetics , the 8th Qur'an

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