The Stylistics Study of Verbs in Hafiz's Sonnets, A Functional Approach

Language has different functions and uses in society and social phenomena in functionalist grammar. So, linguistic phenomena can be studied through this approach. On the basis of functional theory, patterns of experience manifest in form of processes through idealistic meta-functions. Accordingly, we can realize the linguisticbehavior of the poet or the writer in world representation studying different types of existing processes in verbs and determining their frequencies. For example, Hafiz, in his romantic and Qalandar lyrics, uses material processes which imply expression of the outside world more than the other processes, or verbal processes are used besides other elements of narration in some sonnets with debate and narrative space. In this article, the verbs of 100 of Hafiz's sonnets are studied in the framework of Halliday's systemic functional grammar (SFG). Knowing the frequency of several types of verbal processes and how to apply them in sonnets has been considered as a stylistic criterion.