Communication Theory of Ancient Arabic Criticism: Elements and Functions

Abstract

 The research aims to clarify the theory of communication in ancient Arabic criticism in terms of its elements and functions of those elements, by analogy with Jacobson's linguistic theory. The second, the informant (the subject), and the news (the psychological meaning). As for its functions, they are in the previous order: to make it clear and interesting, to question and correct, to have fun and benefit, honor and health, and honesty. And the process of receiving poetry can only be completed by these elements with their combined functions, so one cannot be dispensed with without the other. The relationship between these elements is ambivalent, affecting each other. The informant writes with the recipient in mind, and the linguistic, social and civilized context, and the recipient listens or reads with the same patterns in mind, adding to them his taste and vision. The one who is told about it is only on the basis of the news and the one who is told about it, and the one who is told about it does not become poetic except with all the previous elements, and so is a network of relationships that cannot be separated from one another.