The Functional Role of Phoneme in the Camel Description in Tarafehs

The phoneme is considered as the smallest linguistic unit that is used to distinguish words from each other. Relation between phonology and semantics is placed in the context of relation between signifier and signified. And disagreement between linguists continue until now. Some of them believe that there are functional roles for phonemes in innovative text. Whereas others believe that there is no relationship between meaning and phoneme. In this article we count phonemes in Tarafeh's poem and we express presence and absence of defamiliarisation in camel description. The result is that phoneme plays a crucial role in poetic context. Phonemes that are relevant to meaning are abundant while irrelevant ones that have no connection to meaning are rare.