TY - JOUR ID - 211 TI - Nonverbal Communications in the Poetry of Hafez: The Role of Non-verbal Communications in the Interpretation and Acceptance of Hafez by the Audience JO - Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities JA - ISIH LA - en SN - 2008-4641 AU - Ghobadi, A. AU - Zare Mehrjardi, M. AD - Faculty member, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran. AD - M.A. in Cultural Communications, Soore University, Tehran, Iran. Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 119 EP - 154 KW - Nonverbal communications KW - literature KW - interpretation of culture KW - sign KW - meaning DO - 10.7508/isih.2016.29.006 N2 - Different aspects of the poetry of Hafez have been studied so far.  The material and non-material features of his poetry have been examined in different fields such as literature and anthropology. Due to the influence and importance of Hafez’s poetry, it seems that it can be studied from the perspective of other fields as well. Communications science is among these fields, dealing with how and why communications are established between the speaker and the audience. In the present article the nonverbal aspects in the poetry of Hafez are studied. It seems that the verbal aspects of his poetry are not the only factors that have made it remain popular with the audience through generations; nonverbal aspects have played a great part as well. This article aims to examine the literary work in terms of nonverbal communications in order to demonstrate the skill of the poet in establishing communications with its audience beyond the boundaries of speech; the poet’s mastery over this feature is also culturally interpreted. The utilized method is qualitative content analysis. UR - http://www.isih.ir/article_211.html L1 - http://www.isih.ir/article_211_2fe4286b52ec81db9a1c3da92e35530f.pdf ER -