TY - JOUR JF - jpll JO - Persian Language and Literature VL - 18 IS - 67 PY - 2010 Y1 - 2010/4/01 TI - An Analysis of Cohesion and Coherence in a Ghazal by Hafez from a Systemic Functional Linguistics Viewpoint TT - تحلیل انسجام و پیوستگی در غزلی از حافظ با رویکرد زبان‌شناسی نقش‌گرا N2 - Some literary critics have often engaged in debates on the degree of overall cohesion and coherence across the couplets of the Hafez ghazals: some maintain that the Hafez’s ghazals lack coherence; some others believe that there is cohesion and coherence in the nature of the couplets. This paper presents an analysis of the overall coherence in a ghazal of Hafez- that has a weak cohesion apparently- by using a linguistics framework laid out by Halliday and Hasan (1976 & 1984). Based on this theory, although cohesion is an important property of a text, just finding the cohesive elements does not show that the text is coherent. Rather, after finding these elements, it is necessary to show coherence in a text based on Cohesive Harmony. After doing this analysis, we have found that this ghazal has a very high cohesion and coherence. So, by utilizing this theory - that is a scientific method- we can probe the degree of cohesion and coherence in any ghazal of Hafez or other literary texts quantitatively. SP - 7 EP - 43 AU - Pournamdarian, Taqi AU - Ishani, Tahereh AD - KW - Cohesion KW - Coherence KW - Cohesive Harmony KW - Ghazal KW - Hafez UR - http://jpll.khu.ac.ir/article-1-964-en.html ER -