Evidentiality in Sa’di’s Poetry and Prose: A Corpus Stylistic Study

This study is the first to introduce evidentiality to the stylistic analysis of literary works, specifically that of the great Persian writer Sa’dī, focused on how he used linguistic means to illustrate a real or ideational world.

Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Persian at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran, as well as being an affiliate at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian-Armenian University, Yerevan. He received his PhD in linguistics from Allameh Tabatabaee University in 2004. His major fields of work are Persian linguistics and Iranian dialectology, as well as discourse analysis of drama and fiction. He is the author of the books Tense in Persian (2002), Fārsi Biyāmuzim/Let’s Learn Persian (2003), Persian for Dummies (2015), Pand-e Pārsi/Listening Comprehension of Persian (2016), and Salām Doktor/Dialogue Activities of Persian.

Masoumeh Mehrabi is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Ayatollah Boroujerdi University in Boroujerd, Iran. Her main research interests include sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, stylistics, and discourse analysis.Her major publication in English about the Persian language is ＂Lexical Information of Persian Transitive Verbs during Listening Comprehension＂.