A Survey on the cohering device of Apostrophe in Sermons of the Nahj-ol-balaghe (Acase study of the first forty sermons)

Nahj-ol-balaghe's utilizing the device of Apostrophe not only is the readers' or the listeners' great attraction to its elegant eloquence but is considered as one of the cohering devices in its sermons. Analyzing the role of Apostrohe in the cohesion of the sermons presented in the same book, determining the amount of using different types of Apostrophe in them, and surveying the effectivness of it on the text cohesion are the main objectives of the present research which has attempted to specify the frequency of different rypes of Apostrophe in the first forty sermons in Nahj-ol-balaghe, and analyze some examples of them as the cohering device, while emphasizing the analytical descriptive method, and figurative linguistics. The findings of the study show that the sermons of the Nahj-ol-balaghe enjoy from hexaploid Apostrophes in pronouns, number, forms, particles, syntax, and vocabulary. They also show that the Apostrophe plays a role in the cohesion of the sermons, being used in the associative and substitutive place with some of the cohesive compentsin linguistics.