Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• zeinab akbari ¹
• Arsalan Golfam ²

¹ Postdoc researcher of Persian language and literature, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

² Associate Professor, Department of General Linguistics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The cognitive-linguistic mechanism, which is evident behind a wide range of mystical generative linguistic behaviors, is based on the continuous departure from the context that is formed during the process of online meaning construction. This cognitive transgression in the process of meaning-making expects the audience and the listener to overcome semantic leaps in the language of mysticism by organizing the existing semantic components in the form of support and re-evoking the same components in a new format that is more compatible with them. This cognitive process during which the reader is forced to reanalyze the semantic and functional components of the textual representation is called " frame shifting " The analysis of the examples presented in this article, based on the concept of "frame", "frame shifting" and the analytical tools of the theory of template-based semantics, discusses the capacity of this cognitive mechanism for mystical discourse. The results of the research show that context-avoidance in the language of mystics, " frame shifting " and " semantic leap " is a type of linguistic creativity which is the tension between appropriate reading of the context and secondary reading, intentional violation of conventional rationality, reorganization of cognitive environments and as a result creating It takes on a new meaning.