Investigating Synonymy lexical Sense Relation in Persian on the basis of Layered Schemas Program

This study aims to deal with the role of cognitive and mental abilities of humans in the formation of synonymy sense relation at the level of words of Persian language.The methodology used to do this research is a descriptive, programmatic one. The corpus of the study consists of classic poems of Farrokhzad and Moshiri including synonymy sense relation. The data collected from Persian, involving synonymy sense relation, can be analyzed on the basis of layered schemas program. The findings are as follows: The speakers of Persian language cause the formation of synonymy sense relation at the level of words by using their mental and cognitive abilities, and mainly the experience they get from the environment. The speakers of Persian language make construals by the use of analytic-cognitive factors which consist of perspective, profile, and scanning for the formation of synonymy, and the contextual meaning interpretation of words has a very important role in the formation of synonymy sense relation at word level. This study would give contribution to linguistic learners and future researchers who are interested in lexical sense relations at word level.

Keywords:

Cognitive factors , Layered schemas program , Synonymy sense relation