A Text world Analysis of a Short Story: The Case Study of Farewell [Veda'] by Jalal e Al e Ahmad

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This paper presents an analysis of a short story named farewell [veda'] from a cognitive poetic perspective. The analysis uses Text Worlds Theory as developed by Paul Werth (1999). Text Worlds are mental representations which spring from the discourse world . World - building elements denote the basic deictic arrangement of the text world and provide some sense of setting. What the text is actually about is composed of function- advancing propositions. Once the boundaries of the text world are established and the discourse is progressing, further conceptual layers may be created. These layers are known as sub worlds, which are of three types; deictic, attitudinal and epistemic sub worlds. The analysis of "Farewell" showed that although the extension of deictic and attitudinal sub worlds were limited, but the epistemic sub worlds extended considerably in this story, which resulted in remotedness and hypotheticality and deep layers of meaning within the text.

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