An Analysis of the Didactic Aspects of the Laki Parables in Delfan city

Parables, the most prominent types of popular literature, are the intellectual and cultural extract of human societies, which have always echoed the beliefs, thoughts, feelings, miseries, desires, ideals and customs of different ethnic groups. Parables have many features, the most important of which being the didactic one. The Laks are one of the original and cultured Iranian tribes live mostly in the west and southwest of the country. This Iranian ethnic group speak the Laki language and has a rich oral literature, particularly in parables. This study, which has a descriptive-analytical method, is done using library resources and field data, the significance of advice and its most prominent categories in the parables of the Laki-speakers in Delfan have been investigated. The results reveal many varied concepts of advice in the content and theme of the parables, in which the effect suggests that Laki-speakers advocate advice. The thematic variety of advice in Laki parables encompasses 10 major categories in various areas of life, including: moral virtues and ordering them, forbidding moral vices, teachings of managing affairs, responsibilities and problems, raising a child, relationships and social interactions, livelihood, language and speech, partnership and economic issues, about work, striving and seizing opportunities, and teachings of companionship, friendship and enmity. In this study, 50 Laki parables related to these categories have been selected, reviewed and analyzed.