Stylistic Analysis Sheikh San’an’s story based on functional approach

One of the viewpoint in linguistic science is systematic functional viewpoint, in which Language is a social tool for meaning transferring. Halliday is the greatest theorists in functional approach. About a role, he considers grammatical and linguistic concepts for analyzing a clause, which has three separate semantic layers (ideational, textural and interpersonal metafunctions) but connected to each other which is named metafunction analyzing different literary text like Mantiq-ut-Tayr. Among all the Mantiq-ut-Tayr’s stories, the story of Sheikh San’an is analyzed. This study with using descriptive analysis method has analyzed the problem of different processes, structural and non-structural cohesion and interpersonal metafunction in Sheikh San’an’s story. The result of this research stipulates that material process is used more than other processes in ideational metafunction, which indicates the objective and tangible actions used in this story. In textural structure metafunction, simple theme has a higher frequency than multiple theme and most clauses have embedded theme reiterated. Conjunctions in grammar cohesion, repetition element in reiterated lexicon cohesion-associational in collocation lexicon cohesion have the highest frequency in this story. In textual metafunction, declarative mood has a higher frequency than the other moods and most clauses have positive polarity.