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Part of the validity of the knowledge disseminated in Rumi's Masnavi comes from the types of author-narrator evidentialty about the subjects that are happening or being narrated. In this article, the types and functions of the aforementioned e are interpreted as a cohesive element of signification. The result shows that the Masnavi evidentialties is organized at two macro levels: direct and indirect, each of which is a graduated way of indicating the degree of distance or participation/interference of the author-narrator with the action of the narrative or the events of the subject of representation. Direct evidentialty is visible in three categories of self-disclosure, including the flow of the narrative, the state of the listener, and the present of the speaker, which indicates the close and objective involvement and participation of the author-narrator in the present of the narrative. Indirect evidentialty, which indicates the relationship between the author-narrator's distance and the subject of representation, appears in two categories: the author-narrator's personal inference or his references to others. In personal inference, the author-narrator has taken a position after the event mentally with various types of equal reading, reasoning, decoding and bias towards the subject, but in references, he resorts to the sources of the event/news or uses historical symbols accompanying the subject to increase the credibility of his narration. In this way, the author-narrator of the Masnavi, by using various types of evidentialty as a tool of external semantic continuity, has tried to establish a kind of objective or subjective ...
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