Humanizing Meaning and Language by Hazem Ghartajani

Language and meaning are among the most important subjects which scholars have discussed since the earliest times and sometimes they have presented contradictory viewpoints about it. Undoubtedly, language and meanings have a life for themselves; some of them extinguish in their lifespan and others will survive. Some others undergo transformation and present themselves in new shapes. Similar to the human beings who have a life and live in the society, language and meaning have life and death. Ghartajani believes that language and meaning complement each other and are the two sides of the same coin. He also believes that if we express meaning by using beautiful and attractive language, it will have more effects on the audience. He dedicated many humanized meanings to language and meaning. In fact, he considers them as a human community which moves towards development and progression. In this paper based on a descriptive-analytic procedure, this result was obtained that Ghartajani has used humanized shadings for meanings and language and has applied features like contraction and expansion, indigenous and other characteristics like greed, obscene and dignity, etc. to show the humanized character of meanings and language.