Journal of the stylistic of Persian poem and prose
volume Number 14، number In Volume 8، November 2021 ، issue Number 66

Text Worlds of the Story "The Case of Aghabala and the Children of Limited Company" by Sadegh Hedayat Based on Cognitive Poetics Approach

Behnaz Wahhabian , Massoud Dehghan (Author in Charge), Ebrahim Badakhshan , Akram Korani

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to investigate the worlds of text in the story "The Case of Aghabala and the Children of Limited Company" by Sadegh Hedayat based on the idea of ​​worlds of text by Werth (1999) in the cognitive poetics approach. This is a new bridge approach that connects the wider world of literature to linguistics.

METHODOLOGY: Data were collected from the text of the story by a library method and analyzed using descriptive-analytic method. The authors seek to show how this approach can be used to identify the underlying layers of the writer"s words and how and to what extent the guidance in this story uses the idea of ​​text worlds to advance the story.

FINDINGS: This work of Hedayat is one of his humorous works. In particular, Hedayat’s satire is a bitter satire, and it is not possible to claim with certainty exactly who the audience of his satire is, and their intentions and goals are not explicit but they have been stated in the frame of satire and the principles of satire.

CONCLUSION: The results showed that the idea of ​​text worlds can be used to identify the hidden layers of the story and the writer"s mind. The findings also showed that among the elements of the universe from the tense of the "simple past" among different tenses, the element of the "house" among the places, and among function-advancing propositions from the element of "narrative", and among the sub-worlds in the "epistemic sub-world", Hedayat has used the most to influence his words in the mind and soul of the audience.

Keyword
Text Worlds Theory , cognitive poetics , discourse world , sub-world , Sadegh Hedayat

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