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- Dr. Sami Al-Heeh obtained his Master’s degree in TESOL, University of Brighton, UK in 2007, and a PhD degree in Appli... moreDr. Sami Al-Heeh obtained his Master’s degree in TESOL, University of Brighton, UK in 2007, and a PhD degree in Applied Linguistics, Mansoura University, Egypt in 2020. He works as a full-time faculty member and professor of linguistics at the Department of Applied English, Faculty of Arts, Palestine Ahliya University, Bethlehem. Dr. Sami has been teaching as well as researching linguistics, semantics, morphology, applied linguistics, pragmatics, stylistics, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics since 2008.edit
The small-scale study investigates the multiplex imageries mimicked in Lord of the Flies by Golding. In general, it attempts to develop a good understanding of the mental imageries the Novelist Golding selects in ‘Lord of the Flies’. In... more
The small-scale study investigates the multiplex imageries mimicked in Lord of the Flies by Golding. In general, it attempts to develop a good understanding of the mental imageries the Novelist Golding selects in ‘Lord of the Flies’. In particular, it aims to describe the various mental imageries used, interpret their denotations, and finally explain the forces lying behind their choice. The study benefits from both corpus linguistics and discourse analysis for both data collection and analysis. It fits into the critical studies which builds on van Dijk’s (1998) three-D model of analysis at the syntactic, semantic, and schematic level of discourse. It has been found that four modes of imageries are exploited as motifs in the novel to help develop certain themes. They exclusively include visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory imageries. Though very frequent, the visual imageries are used to convey motifs of maturation and peacefulness of mind, surviving, limitations of human capacity, lack of knowledge, eagerness to move or travel, and understanding the surroundings. The auditory imageries are also frequent; however, they are utilized to satisfy motifs of World War II and fighting between nations, total curiosity and eagerness to socialize within human communities, panic, fear, and anger, limitations of human capacity, and surviving. Both the tactile and olfactory are very rare. The tactile imagery is used to help develop the need for knowledge, leadership and peace whereas the olfactory one is selected to present war and fighting within modern communities. It has been concluded that the mental imageries are exploited well as motifs that can present the development of both human civilization and self-concept throughout history up to present times.
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This small-scale study investigates the rights of Muslim woman listed in the marriage document issued by legal court in Palestine. It aims to describe the moves as well as the steps of the contract at the macro level, interpret the nature... more
This small-scale study investigates the rights of Muslim woman listed in the marriage document issued by legal court in Palestine. It aims to describe the moves as well as the steps of the contract at the macro level, interpret the nature of the right each move and step sustains for women at the micro level of the document, and finally explain the forces lying behind the documentation of one particular right. The study applies a qualitative research method in which Bhatia’s (2004) genre as well as van Dijk’s (1998) critical discourse analysis (CDA) models were utilized to analyze the rhetorical features and components of the Palestinian marriage document. It has been found that the document consists of three major parts conceived as moves as follows: The heading, the central, and closing move. The heading move steps to identify the issuer of the document, justify the notion of marriage from an Islamic perspective, assign the settings of the document. The central move steps to provide the details of people getting married, check their age and health, identify the amount paid as dowry and how, assign the wife’s parent and the son-in-law as direct implementers of the contract being held, suggest any potential conditions of any partner, assign two mature witnesses, and finally to word the marriage knot. The closing move steps to sign the document by two Muslim witnesses, the couple, their parents, and finally the state agent. It has also been found that the marriage document clearly preserves the fiscal, sociocultural, legal and physical rights of both sexes getting married. However, it has been concluded that the documents under investigation is not only oriented to a good extent by the Islamic notion of marriage but also dominated by the sociocultural values of patriarchal masculinity.
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This small-scale study fits into both domains of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and curricula. It investigates modes of persuasion EFL course books and illustrators tend to use when they compile and publish books. The study applies a... more
This small-scale study fits into both domains of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and curricula. It investigates modes of persuasion EFL course books and illustrators tend to use when they compile and publish books. The study applies a content analysis approach to data collection as well as a critical approach to data analysis. It builds on Fairclough's (2010) three-dimensional model of analysis at the three levels of meaning production, consumption, and realization. It has been found that the authors and illustrators of face2face-as a case study, incline significantly to use the mode of logos through some topics intended to attract young learners and broaden their minds. They also tend to integrate both modes of logos and pathos in particular topics aiming to teach the younger generation how to face the challenges of modern life and how to deal with negative energy. They also integrate all modes of persuasion to enable young learners to discover new ideas about life and professional opportunities. Less frequently, the authors of face2face tend to integrate both modes of logos and ethos as well as pathos and ethos among certain topics intended for cultural, emotional, and personal awareness.
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This study addresses the use of hyperbole in the Quran at the word level and its English translation. It investigates the morphological shift of hyperbolic patterns such as ‘Fa’uul (فعول), Fa’eel (فعيل) and Fa’aal’ (فعال) and their... more
This study addresses the use of hyperbole in the Quran at the word level and its English translation. It investigates the morphological shift of hyperbolic patterns such as ‘Fa’uul (فعول), Fa’eel (فعيل) and Fa’aal’ (فعال) and their corresponding English translations. We attempt to determine the implications underlying the translation strategies for the translation quality of the data under study. Under this circumstance, the translator applied a series of translation strategies, such as literal translation, paraphrase, transposition, and morphological strategies, with transposition being the most employed strategy. Such strategies were in some cases a problem for the functions of the Quranic hyperboles. As such, the translation quality was occasionally poor
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This small-scale study investigates 'Mechanics of Linguistic Mobility in COVID-19 Pandemic: Lexical innovation and richness'. Thus, it generally studies the language native speakers of English have innovated and developed during the... more
This small-scale study investigates 'Mechanics of Linguistic Mobility in COVID-19 Pandemic: Lexical innovation and richness'. Thus, it generally studies the language native speakers of English have innovated and developed during the ongoing global crisis. In particular, it aims to quantify these terms, identify the morphological processes that facilitate the derivation of these phrases, and explain the reasons lying behind their selection and uses. Methodologically, the study fits into the qualitative research. For data collection, the study benefits from corpus linguistics, i.e. studies of large bodies of texts. Therefore, a concordance of key words in context (KWIC) has been carried out on the British National Corpora (BNC) and other lexicographic sites to build a corpus of corona language. Analytically, the study builds on critical discourse analysis (CDA) at the semantic, morphological and schematic, i.e. discourse level of words and phrases used during the crisis. It has been found that the terms and expressions used during the crisis are either coined to convey new senses or altered to satisfy certain meanings related to the pandemic. The morphological processes vary considerably between compounding, clipping, inflection and coining. The social domains in which the invented terms are used include family, education, health, psychology, sociology, business, politics, and religion.
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This cognitive, small-scale study reviews the formulaic expressions used in the Quranic discourse. From a pragma-stylistic view, it examines the extent to which the Quranic expressions identified by Arab linguists as "odd" words are used... more
This cognitive, small-scale study reviews the formulaic expressions used in the Quranic discourse. From a pragma-stylistic view, it examines the extent to which the Quranic expressions identified by Arab linguists as "odd" words are used as discourse markers. Based on more recent denotational theories, the paper claims that these expressions are unlikely to be anomalous. It theorizes that these phrases are verbal clues that work on the discourse level. The study utilizes corpus linguistics for data collection. Theoretically, it builds on discourse analysis (DA) as a main approach to data categorization and analysis. Thus, it models on Fairclough (2013) and Van Dijk's (1998) analytical framework to describe, interpret and explain the senses of these expressions in the various processes of meaning production, consumption and realization. A systematic, linguistic analysis is carried out on the syntactic, semantic and schematic levels. It has been found that these expressions fit into some formulaic sequences in which the components refer either directly to the discourse or indirectly to the context in which the embolic term is used. The contexts in which the formulaic patterns are selected and used are mainly characterized by hypersensitivity to sex and abstractedness of comprehension. The linguistic features of the expressions suggest that the Quranic discourse uses them for language politeness to keep face, for more linguistic interactions to clarify meaning and for hedging to sustain other potential senses. Finally, the study implicates for research on pragmatic and translation studies.
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This small-scale study explores the rhetorical features of women's language in the Qur'anic discourse. It aims to check the norms of speech the Qur'anic discourse maintains for women as interlocutors. The study utilizes both corpus... more
This small-scale study explores the rhetorical features of women's language in the Qur'anic discourse. It aims to check the norms of speech the Qur'anic discourse maintains for women as interlocutors. The study utilizes both corpus linguistics, i.e. large body of texts, and discourse analysis as methods of research. For data collection, the study benefits from concordance, i.e. key words in context (KWIK). For data analysis, the study, however, applies critical discourse analysis (CDA). Therefore, it builds on Fairclough's 2013 and Van Dijk's 1998 models of analysis. It has been found that the Qur'anic discourse urges women to keep face, to maintain norms of polite speech and to tell the truth. Finally, the study implicates for pedagogy and research.
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This evaluative paper attempts to explore the extent to which morphemes, i.e. the smallest units that carry meaning, can be incorporating in Standard Arabic. From different linguistic perspectives, the article quantifies as well as... more
This evaluative paper attempts to explore the extent to which morphemes, i.e. the smallest units that carry meaning, can be incorporating in Standard Arabic. From different linguistic perspectives, the article quantifies as well as qualifies the long structures in the holy Script of Islam. The longest structure is identified as the unit of language that aggregates the verb phrase (VP) and some other noun phrases (NPs) functioning as subject and object(s) together on both the graphemic and phonemic levels. Euphonies, i.e. rules of sound concordance, are consulted. Meaning relations and values are calculated and drawn. The components of the long structure including the verb phrase (VP) and its arguments are investigated on both the functional, i.e. grammatical, and syntactic, i.e. structural, levels.
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This paper investigates non-complementary antonyms in Standard Arabic in concord with recent denotational theories. Therefore, it builds on first order logic to check how these antonyms are contextualized in Arabic discourse. Accordingly,... more
This paper investigates non-complementary antonyms in Standard Arabic in concord with recent denotational theories. Therefore, it builds on first order logic to check how these antonyms are contextualized in Arabic discourse. Accordingly, it has been assumed that the lexical meaning manipulated by these antonyms must express some true and untrue values at the logical level when they are used for debates or arguments. To draw these values, the antonym meaning relations and linguistic properties of the predicate and its arguments are all calculated. It has been found that Standard Arabic tends to use three types of non-complementary opposites: Polar, overlapping and equipollent. Arguments are often carried out by the positive as well as the negative pair parts of the polar antonyms to convey more realistic meaning relations. Debates are also manipulated by the negative pair part of the overlapping antonym, as this pair part helps draw a real meaning value. Exceptionally, Arabic also tends to use certain terms, such as good and not good to evaluate the argument done on the negative overlapping pair part. Arguments are inclusively carried out on the positive pair part of the equipollent antonym, though the negative part also helps draw a true meaning value. In some debates, the positive pair part of the equipollent antonym switches to the negative part which is tagged with another synonym functioning as an evaluative element.
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This small-scale study explores the extent to which Arabic employs or rather applies polysemy, i.e. diversity of meanings as well as family-resemblance words to advance new senses. First, the paper quantifies the words that sound... more
This small-scale study explores the extent to which Arabic employs or rather applies polysemy, i.e. diversity of meanings as well as family-resemblance words to advance new senses. First, the paper quantifies the words that sound polysemous. Then, it qualifies the meaning values such words utilize. The paper classifies the polysemous words according to the values they benefit from into shape-oriented, source-based, locomotion-adjusted, knot-tailored and cavity-accommodated morphemes. The paper also advances to check family-resemblance phrases from a sociolinguistic as well as a socio-pragmatic perspective. It subcategorizes these phrases into functional and dysfunctional familial lexemes. The study approaches lexical meaning from a systemic functional language (SFL) as well as a critical discourse analysis (CDA) perspective. The paper benefits from both discourse analysis and corpus linguistics. Accordingly, the study explores the corpus of the Noble Quran for key word in context (KWIK). The paper exclusively quotes from the holy Script of Islam for its linguistic conciseness.
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From a structural perspective, this paper explores the extent to which certain words referred to as noun phrases (NPs) are used as quantifiers in Standard Arabic. It exceptionally excludes the logical quantifiers that have clear and... more
From a structural perspective, this paper explores the extent to which certain words referred to as noun phrases (NPs) are used as quantifiers in Standard Arabic. It exceptionally excludes the logical quantifiers that have clear and constant references as quantifiers, such as the articles, numbers and numerals. The paper also examines exclusively the demonstrative pronouns (as Arab linguists traditionally refer to them on the prosodic level). From a semantic view, the article classifies the Semitic demonstrative pronouns as syncategorematic words that syntactically spread either anaphorically or cataphorically. It also subcategorizes them functionally as endophoric, exophoric and anaphoric proximal words. Unconventionally, the paper also exploits first order logic to re-categorize them as universal and existential references. Truth values and meaning postulates for the propositions in which the demonstrative NPs used, are drawn and calculated. For its precision and concision, the paper benefits as well as cites from The Noble Quran.
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This study explores the Palestinian wedding invitation discourse. It investigates the sociocultural values depicted in the discursive wedding discourse to explain the forces lying behind the young couples' preferences and inclinations in... more
This study explores the Palestinian wedding invitation discourse. It investigates the sociocultural values depicted in the discursive wedding discourse to explain the forces lying behind the young couples' preferences and inclinations in the last few decades. Theoretically, the study builds on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) implemented by Fairclough (1995; 2010), and van Dijk (1998). It has been found that the wedding discourse is traditionally dominated by some religious affiliations, and exclusively oriented by sociocultural practices, fundamentally featured as a patriarchal domination and social discrimination against woman, in particular, and young couples, in general. Evidenced in the most recent practices of the Palestinian wedding discourse community is a change in the social norms, manifesting itself in abandoning religion-oriented wedding texts and patriarchdominated social systems. This sociolinguistic variation being in progress is developed under time passage and the impact of internal and external factors, including governance, i.e. the instructions and activities of the Palestinian Authority towards peace, and the unstable geo-political factors for decades, hot themes of modern life, such as the equality between both sexes, liberty, woman's rights and roles in the third millennium, and the modern emerging technologies.
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This small-scale study explores the extent to which woman is being embraced gently in the Quranic discourse. It aims at identifying the potential roles the Quranic discourse assigns for women to play. As the study utilizes corpus... more
This small-scale study explores the extent to which woman is being embraced gently in the Quranic discourse. It aims at identifying the potential roles the Quranic discourse assigns for women to play. As the study utilizes corpus linguistics, a concordance of key words in context (KWIC) to list the Quranic discourses reporting the roles is used. The study exclusively applies a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to the data collected. It inclusively builds on Fairclough's (2010) and van Dijk's 1(998) models of analysis to describe the roles assigned for woman to play, interpret the properties given to the role players and explain the forces lying behind the Quranic selection and use. It has been found that woman in the Quranic discourse plays a considerable number of significant human, social, leading, ethnic, and ethical roles. As a human being, woman is supposed to enable peacefulness of mind. When a mother, she follows her intuition to protect her own family. If a fruitless wife, she tends to fight against racial discrimination and genocide. As a field worker, she avoids direct competition with her counterpart, the male, and struggles for doing her job properly and patiently. As a leader, she is exceptionally a peacemaker. And as a witness, she always tells the truth tactfully. Consequently, it has been concluded that woman in the QD is honored or rather promoted to a good position. Finally, the study implicates for pedagogy and research on Muslim woman.
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This small-scale study explores the extent to which the Qur"anic discourse shifts verb tense, sentence pattern, and language style. It aims to describe, interpret, and explain t he linguistic factors lying behind these switches. The study... more
This small-scale study explores the extent to which the Qur"anic discourse shifts verb tense, sentence pattern, and language style. It aims to describe, interpret, and explain t he linguistic factors lying behind these switches. The study benefits from corpus linguistics through which a concordance of specific key words in context (KWIC) is used to collect data. The study applies a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach. T herefore, it builds on van Dijk"s (1998) model of analysis. It has been found that the Qur"anic discourse tends to shift the tense to present time when arguing for certain themes including mainly martyrdom and prisoner taking. T he Qur"anic discourse also applies three modes of sentence pattern: OVS, VSO, and VOS. On the rhetorical level of the Qur"anic discourse, the OVS pattern is exclusively used to organize sub-topics; the frequent VSO is referentially used to provide knowledge about sub-topics, and the VOS mode is essentially applied to meet norms of polite address. The Qur"anic discourse uses three types of language style: nominal, verbal and mixed. T he nominal style is selected to package meaning; the verbal to develop relations between arguments and the mixed to help connote specific feelings about certain predicates under discussion. Consequently, it has been concluded that the Qur"anic discourse shifts the tense to maintain life for war fighters from both sides, the clause pattern to meet both rhetorical and pragmatic criteria, and finally the style to load and implicate meaning.
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This small-scale study investigates acculturation and identity restoration among local Jerusalemites. It exploits Al-Barghouti"s poem "In Jerusalem" to examine the forces lying behind the Israeli occupational practices against the... more
This small-scale study investigates acculturation and identity restoration among local Jerusalemites. It exploits Al-Barghouti"s poem "In Jerusalem" to examine the forces lying behind the Israeli occupational practices against the Palestinian people living in Jerusalem. The study also aims to explore affiliations of identity restoration among the Palestinian ethnic groups living in Jerusalem. The study builds on a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to the literary work under study. Thus, it utilizes Van Dijk (1998) and Fairclough"s (2010, 2013) 3-D models of analysis. By applying a critical as well as analytical approach, it has been found that isolation, separation, migration, Judaism, religious tourism, diaspora and eagerness, racial discrimination and ethnic genocide are (but not exclusively) among the factors and methods of acculturation that the Israeli authorities are employing against local Jerusalemites implicitly and explicitly. It has also been found that the emergence as well as the arrival of Islam to Jerusalem in the 7 th century, the establishment of good relations between Muslim and Christian locals, religion, common architecture and spirituality, and instigation against tyranny, slavery, dictatorship and invasion have all contributed to the development of an authentic, original identity only composed of Arabic sociocultural norms and values.
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This small-scale study explores language change in the Qur"anic Discourse. It aims to describe some semi-identical verses with minor changes at the structural level, interpret the meanings depicted in these verses, and explain the factors... more
This small-scale study explores language change in the Qur"anic Discourse. It aims to describe some semi-identical verses with minor changes at the structural level, interpret the meanings depicted in these verses, and explain the factors that facilitated the linguist variation depicted in theses verses. The study utilizes corpus linguistics for data collection. It also applies a critical as well as an analytical approach to the data collected. Thus, it builds on Fairclough"s (1998) critical model of discourse analysis. It has been found that the holy Script of Islam tends to apply language change in a few semi-identical verses. The variation, perceived by a native speaker"s intuition, is structurally carried out through lexicalization, grammaticalization, or lexico-grammaticalization. It has been concluded that the sociolinguistic variation, realized in the Qur"anic discourse, is regulated by the status, gender, and interaction social factors.
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This paper explores the extent to which the Qur'anic discourse helps realize social variation from both a pragmatic and stylistic perspective. It theorizes that individuals coming from different functional and dysfunctional families often... more
This paper explores the extent to which the Qur'anic discourse helps realize social variation from both a pragmatic and stylistic perspective. It theorizes that individuals coming from different functional and dysfunctional families often show a good degree of dissimilarities in their responses and behaviors. Thus, the paper aims to check whether these individual differences are reflected in the Noble Qur'an or not. It is also intended to examine mechanics of linguistic variability in the holy Script of Islam to mirror the various individual proclivities and tendencies. Data collection has been carried out through a concordance process in which certain key words in context (KWIC) related to kinship, such as brother, father, mother and clan, and family-resemblance categories, such as Jews, Christians, believers and Sabians, are listed in a corpus. The study applies a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to the data collected. Therefore, it builds on Van Dijk's (1998) model of critical analysis at the syntactic, semantic and schematic levels. It has been found that the Qur'anic discourse mirrors variation among individuals from a stylistic, pragmatic and socio-pragmatic perspectives. Mechanics of linguistic variation in performance has included mainly shifting language styles and functions, reordering the relevant arguments in harmony with the context under discussion, qualifying speech to tell the truth and (accordingly) to address norms of polite address, and selecting certain figures of speech that help ideas to flow easily and beautifully.
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This small-scale study investigates the optimal features of good Muslim woman. It aims to describe, interpret, and explain the rhetorical features of the properties the Qur'anic discourse (QD) maintains for both sexes and those it... more
This small-scale study investigates the optimal features of good Muslim woman. It aims to describe, interpret, and explain the rhetorical features of the properties the Qur'anic discourse (QD) maintains for both sexes and those it excludes for the good Muslim woman. The study benefits from corpus, i.e. text, linguistics for data collection. It also applies a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to the Quotes collected from the Noble Qur'an (NQ). The paper builds on Van Dijk's 1998 model of analysis at the syntactic, semantic and schematic levels of the properties identified for a good Muslim woman. It has been found that the QD assigns ten properties to describe a good Muslim man and woman; they include submission, belief, obedience, truthfulness, faithfulness, humbleness, alms giving, fasting, chastity, and turning to Allah. Among these, the QD exclusively and inclusively lists 'being resigned, believing, always turning to Him, being devoted to worship, fasting', and 'being a widow or a virgin' as general semantic features for a good Muslim wife. It has been concluded that the properties identified for a good Muslim woman have directive, informative, meta-linguistic and affective functions. They are part of the sociology of Islam which accommodates the ontological principle of creating women as a different sex having other roles to play with the deontological theory of moral obligation to obey freely the other sex. The Qur'anic engineering tactfully goes beyond reconciling both sexes' needs and roles to repair some social norms established and entrenched against the woman who has already experienced marriage before.
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From a pragmatic perspective, this small-scale study investigates the discourse markers used in the Quranic discourse. It aims to conceive some bare minimum words namely ('an, 'in, la:, li-, ma: and ha-) as discourse markers.... more
From a pragmatic perspective, this small-scale study investigates the discourse markers used in the Quranic discourse. It aims to conceive some bare minimum words namely ('an, 'in, la:, li-, ma: and ha-) as discourse markers. Traditionally, Arab linguists often classified them as extra words because of their minute word-formations to convey certain meanings. Based on more recent denotational and morphological theories, the study theorizes that they must be morphemes, i.e. smallest units of words that carry meaning, sustained on the discourse level of some specific contexts for some pure linguistic reasons. The study uses key word in context (KWIK) for data collection. It applies a critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach to the data collected. It uses Fairclough's 2010 and Van Dijk's 1998 models of analysis on the syntactic, semantic and schematic level. It has been found that the minimal words are unlikely to be extraneous or erroneous. They constitute an important linguistic element of some discourses negotiating contexts characterized by hypersensitivity. Stylistically and pragmatically, the Quranic discourse utilizes them schematically to meet the requirements of logic for hedging, to satisfy the needs of participants for linguistic interaction and to show inclinations of people to language politeness. Finally, the study implicates for research on pragmatics and translation studies.
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This paper explores the extent to which meaning is conveyed in Classical Arabic. It aims to quantify as well as qualify the various kinds of meaning and the techniques used to advance them on the linguistic various levels. From a semantic... more
This paper explores the extent to which meaning is conveyed in Classical Arabic. It aims to quantify as well as qualify the various kinds of meaning and the techniques used to advance them on the linguistic various levels. From a semantic perspective, it first categorizes kinds of meaning according to denotation and connotations satisfied by paraphrasing and definition and to 'sense' perceived by ostensive, i.e. sensory, definition. Second, it examines the syntactic meaning achieved by composition, addition, and (inclusively but exceptionally by) Arabic sentence-pattern switching and phoneme clipping on the structural level. Then, it advances lexical meaning expressed by synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, meronyms, polysemous words, and family resemblances. Finally, it presents the categorematic word that can carry full meaning and the syncategorematic one which can only modify meaning. In both types, morphemes are isolated and allomorphs are exemplified. The paper quotes from the Holy Script of Islam, the Noble Quran, for its linguistic preciseness and conciseness.
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This paper explores the extent to which modality manifests itself in mind. It quantifies as well as qualifies the lexemes that help model meaning in Standard Arabic (SA). For its conciseness, the paper exclusively quotes from the Noble... more
This paper explores the extent to which modality manifests itself in mind. It quantifies as well as qualifies the lexemes that help model meaning in Standard Arabic (SA). For its conciseness, the paper exclusively quotes from the Noble Quran. Methodologically, the study exploits corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and to some extent socio-pragmatic trends. It concordances certain words in context (KWIK) that help shape probable or certain 'ability', 'lack of ability', 'prohibition', 'permissibility', 'willingness', and 'expectation'. The paper advances to classify modality-according to the world in which modality negotiates meaning-into logical, epistemic and deontic ones. In the real world, i.e. what resides in our heads, modality is sub-classified into a logical necessity or logical possibility. In any possible world extending in the universe, modality tends to be epistemic, i.e. knowledgeable. Epistemic modality is subcategorized into an epistemic necessity or an epistemic possibility. In the perfect world, modality is divided into a deontic necessity or a deontic probability. For any ideal obedience, people are expected to obey certain rules. Meanwhile, meaning relations, postulates of meaning, properties of predicates and truth values are examined, suggested, drawn and calculated, respectively. The syntactic analysis of some contextualized words has revealed that SA tends to employ certain words to express possibly and necessarily logical, epistemic and deontic modality.
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From both perspectives of modern theories of kinesics and semiotics, this small-scale study investigates body language in the Quranic Discourse. It aims at exploring the extent to which the Noble Quran uses body language to convey certain... more
From both perspectives of modern theories of kinesics and semiotics, this small-scale study investigates body language in the Quranic Discourse. It aims at exploring the extent to which the Noble Quran uses body language to convey certain meanings. The study benefits from corpus linguistics for data collection in which a concordance of key words in contexts (KWIC) including the Arabic for body organs, such ashands, face, legs, fingers, for instance,is carried out. The study also uses a discourse analysis approach. Thus, it builds on van Dijk's (1998) model of analysis at the syntactic, semantic, and schemative level of the Quranic discourse. It has been found that the Quranic discourse useshands adversely to signify deception, suspicion and abomination, eyes to disclose despair and disdain,the head to assert 'No!', finger insertion into the ear to show arrogance, one's side curvature to get people astray, one's sideto turnaway from bed to fear Allah,women's legs to warn them not to showtheir physical beauty (on purpose), foot to step firm, backside to show withdrawal and lack of bravery, and face to both manifest refusal and keep public image among Muslim women, particular.
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The study investigates the pragmatic processes manipulated in the Quranic conversation patterns. From a post-structural, non-essentialist theoretical framework, the study explores Quranic corpus linguistics. From a socio-pragmatic... more
The study investigates the pragmatic processes manipulated in the Quranic conversation patterns. From a post-structural, non-essentialist theoretical framework, the study explores Quranic corpus linguistics. From a socio-pragmatic perspective, the paper benefits from discourse analysis to identify adjacent, converted, inserted, dis-preferred and solidarity routines as frequent speech patterns. From a pragmalinguistic view, the study identifies assigning reference and meaning and interpreting the illocutionary-force and the implicated meaning as strategies for processing meaning when people interact in language. The study furthers from a structural-functional perspective to reflect on the pragmatic processes identified. It finally acknowledges the Quranic text linguistics effort to remedy pair talks.
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From a sociolinguistic as well as a pragma-linguistic perspective, this cognitive, small-scale study investigates the language features depicted in the opening of Al-Isra' Quranic discourse. It conceives the discourse as Arabic for... more
From a sociolinguistic as well as a pragma-linguistic perspective, this cognitive, small-scale study investigates the language features depicted in the opening of Al-Isra' Quranic discourse. It conceives the discourse as Arabic for tourism. The study aims to describe and interpret the rhetorical features of the word selected, the language functions intended and the styles used to explain the affiliations of the discourse. The study builds on critical discourse analysis (CDA) as a research method. The study integrates both Fairclough's 2013 three-dimensional analytical framework and Van Dijk's 1998 syntactic, semantic and schematic analytical approaches. It has been found that the opening of Al-Isra' Quranic discourse displays affiliations of race, place, face and faith. The study presents the findings in categories and subcategories. It concludes that word choice, language functions, styles, speech and voice are all employed to advance a genre having the features of Arabic for tourism. Finally, the researcher implicates for pedagogy and research.