Stylistic Comparison Between Tarikh - e Beyhaghi's Formal Letters and its Narrative text

This article entitled “stylistic comparison between Tarikh – e Beyhaghi’s formal lettersand its narrative text”, is studied and analyzed from a linguistic system point of view. Inliterature researches, linguistic system which relates to “form area”, consists of threesections: 1- phonetic 2- vocabulary 3- content. Only vocabulary and content are studied inthis research. This field generally has a stylistic nature.The importance and necessity of performing this research is to clarify if there is anysimilarity or difference between Beyhaghi’s formal letters and narrative texts which werewritten unconditionally, with this consideration that Beyhaghi is a secretary of Ghaznavidcourt.This research shows that regarding vocabulary there is not any remarkable differencebetween the formal letters and the narrative texts, but regarding content and deviant structurethe difference between the letters’ style and the narrative text’s style is very tangible. Thesedifferences are:The narrative text is descriptive and rhythmic and simulates poem; but formal letters arevery prim and were written summarily just for conveying short meanings. In formal lettersauthor cannot fictionalize or romanticize, however, this style is particularly used in narrativetexts.