Stylistic Analysis of an Anecdote from Tazkirat- al-Awliya by Attar Neishabouri in the Light of Critical Discourse Analysis

Discourse stylistics is influenced by critical discourse analysis and role-oriented linguistics, which goes beyond the sentence level in literary texts and analyzes the text in the context of the situation. In this method, in addition to traditional stylistic analysis, content, influence of thoughts, ideology, and the atmosphere of text creation are explained and examined. This research uses a descriptive-analytical method to discover and recognize the various layers of Tazkirat al-Awliya as an outstanding mystical work, and examines the relationship between the layers of text, and language and ideology of the author. The results indicate that in the lexical level, the employment of religious vocabulary is influenced by the ideology of the text , highlighting the virtue and attention to the hereafter. This invites the reader to a world-hatred discourse of the text.  The high frequency of informative and imperative objects and active verbs has resulted in the certainty and dogmatism of the text in the syntactic layer, and in the layer of pragmatics, explicit and persuasive morphemes have been used in the form of many news sentences, which show the author's awareness, belief and understanding of the issues raised. As a matter of fact, the author informs others about his inner desires and feelings, concerns and truths that is bound to. In the meta level, the text encourages the reader to leave the material world behind, and to devote to virtuous and ascetic life manifested in the dominant discourse of the text.