Ali Mohammad Haqshenas,
Volume 1, Issue 1 (5-2004)
Abstract
Referring to the lack of coordination and agreement among Iranian linguists and Iranian men of letters, the author of this article discusses the negative consequences of such discordance. Then, he discusses the contributions of linguists to literary studies. The author offers a way by which linguistic methodologies can demonstrate the inferences of the men of letters objectively. Since long, there has been argument over the three terms; verse, prose, and poetry. As a result the boundaries among the three have not been clear-cut. In an attempt to solve the confusion, the author examines the three terms linguistically and presents the differences among them. Along the same lines, he seeks to drive some objective rules in order to make a clear distinction between language and literature. He also offers a basis on which the position of verse, prose, and poetry can be determined as three artistic modes of the same name, i.e., ‘verbal art’.
