A Study of the Narrative Construction of the Tarikh Jahangooshay-e- Jowayni based on Text World Theory

The reading of ancient Persian heritage, and especially historical narratives based on cognitive theories such as Text World Theory is necessary, because new scientific approaches provide space for accurate identification and discovery of the hidden layers of texts. In this study, with the analytic-descriptive method, we applied the Text World Theory in the analysis and study of the narrative construction of the first volume of the Tarikh Jahangooshay-e- Jowayni and figured out that the propositions related to Character descriptions are more than preposition related to scenes description also because the Deictic sub-worlds are less, so the reader does not travel much in the different, temporal and spatial spaces in a narrative, and thus does not experience and conceptualize the text worlds that differ from the original text world in terms of temporal and spatial variables. Temporal pointers are no more accurate than space pointers. The Attitudinal sub-worlds and epistemic sub-worlds are scarce, and one of the reasons for this is the narrator's unchanging viewpoint. Jowayni reports narrations more than characters.