Defamiliarization and " Apostrophe" (Elefat) in Nahj-al-Balaghe

The main purpose of Defamiliarization that is usually done through highlighting and breaking the norm of speech in discourse is drawing attention of the audiences to the subject.
Defamiliarization disrupts the normal and the expected process of speech.One of the Defamiliarization and high lighting styles of speech is “Apostrophe” (Elefat) that has been used frequently in Nahj-al-Balaghe sermons along with other rhetorical techniques. This makes Imam Alis (AS) sermons more attractive and more effective. In these sermons, the full interaction between thought and speech produce fruitful results and supreme thoughts flow through the selected word, and effective and appropriate style.
The present study tries to investigate in a descriptive- analytic way the application of Apostrophe (Eltefat) through changes in different styles including manipulation of pronouns, persons and numbers. It also attempt to prove the hypothesis that many kinds of Apostrophe (Eltefat) in Nahj-al-Balaghe have been used considering their rhetorical intentions. These Apostrophes influence different levels of speech behaviors through changes in pronouns, persons, verb tenses, syntactic structures and so on.