كاربست نظريۀ مجاز متني عبدالجبار الشرفي در تحليل منتخبي از غزليات حافظ

Applying Abduljabbar Al-Sharafi’s Theory of Textual Metonymy to selec‎ted Ghazals of Hafez

زبان و ادبيات فارسي

Textual metonymy is one of the major concepts in text semiotics that Abduljabbar Al-Sharafi regards not merely as a rhetorical device but as a mechanism for establishing textual cohesion an‎d coherence. According to his theory, textual metonymy creates representational relations among the domains of form, concept, an‎d thing, thereby contributing to the construction of textual meaning. The present study aims to investigate the function of textual metonymy in selec‎ted ghazals of Hafez based on Al-Sharafi’s theory an‎d seeks to determine how metonymic relations contribute to the cohesion an‎d coherence of his poetry. This research adopts a qualitative descriptive-analytical approach. The corpus consists of ghazals selec‎ted from Hafez’s Divan based on the Ghani–Qazvini edition. In the first stage, twenty ghazals were screened according to objective criteria, including the number of coded metonymic relations, the number of principal metonymic chains, chain density, chain span, inter-chain links, an‎d the ratio of multi-chain verses. Subsequently, ten ghazals with the highest metonymic density an‎d structural complexity were selec‎ted for detailed analysis. The analytical framework was based on Al-Sharafi’s nine representational relations an‎d was conducted at the two levels of textual cohesion an‎d textual coherence. The findings reveal that Hafez’s ghazals are structured through extensive networks of metonymic relations an‎d semantic chains that play a crucial role in organizing textual meaning. The most frequent metonymic relations identified in the selec‎ted ghazals were Thing for Concept an‎d Concept for Concept. Furthermore, the analyses demonstrated that the semantic chains of love an‎d the beloved, rindness an‎d the tavern, mystical knowledge an‎d spiritual journey, nature an‎d beauty, separation an‎d longing, an‎d power an‎d kingship constitute the dominant meaning-producing networks within the poems. These chains are interconnected through numerous inter-chain relations, resulting in both structural cohesion an‎d cognitive coherence. The study also indicates that textual metonymy in Hafez’s poetry functions not merely as a rhetorical ornament but as a fundamental mechanism for meaning production, textual organization, an‎d the representation of the poet’s worldview. Moreover, the findings confirm that Al-Sharafi’s theory of textual metonymy provides an effective framework for the semiotic analysis of classical Persian literary texts an‎d offers valuable insights into the study of textual meaning an‎d literary signification.

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