Language and Communication ethics in Rumi's Thought

"communication" is a concept beyond technical and linguistic tools and mechanisms. The highest level of "communication" is conducted through "conversation" or "dialogue" where a common concept is created by the parties involved in the conversation. Conversation in Masnavi is a process which is defined by applying codes, analogies, stories and humor. In this process, language is considered both as a communication and an anti-communication tool. Communication, in Rumi’s view, is "audience-oriented" and "polysemous" and is formed by an emphasis on "morality" and extra-linguistic and extra-physical understanding. After selecting a "mystical thought theme" in the research, the conversation content in Masnavi was pursued with an emphasis on tales, stories, and linguistic and ethical concepts.
In Rumi’s communicative thought, cultural and social context impacts on the possibility or the impossibility of communication and therefore "conversation" takes shape as a phenomenon beyond language restrictions and structural constraints, sometimes with "eloquence" and sometimes "in silence". In fact, dialogue is a "polysemous, spiritual and moral" category and to be achieved it requires believing in and exercising the ethics of conversation.