Using ‘Verbal Parallelism’ as a Tool in Developing Jakobsonian Six Functions of language: A Case study of Dastoor by Habib Jalib

Abstract

This study aims at exploring and investigating the patterns of verbal parallelism as used by Jaalib to construct a communicative element in the text. Structuralism is used as the theoretical framework of the analysis where Jacobson’s six functions of language are analysed through the lens of Verbal Parallelism. The analytical framework model used by the researcher was employed to find the style of the writer as a revolutionary and persuasive one. This model comprised of rhetorical device i.e. Verbal Parallelism (i.e. Anaphora, Epistrophe, Symploce, Homoioteleuton) to identify the six functions of language devised by a structuralist Jakobson. These functions include Referential, emotive, phatic, conative, metalingual and poetic in order to focus context, addresser, contact, addressee, code and message respectively. All the functions work to bring out the message of the poem conveyed by the poet which is ‘rejection of the New Constitution framed by a dictator ruler without any fear or dread’.