A Saussaurian Reading of Ale_ImranSura: Syntagmatic Analysis

Saussure believed the world is composed of elements which are not independent of each other but gain meaning within the ‘system’, a system through which elements gain their valuesand believed that there was a verbal linguistic and spiritual link between the word mentioned in the text and the words that were placed on the vertical line and those were not appeared, and called it the vertical and substitutional axis of the text So that ignoring it will result in ignoring the desirable meaning. So based on Saussure's point of view, literary text like any other non-literary text finds special emphasis on the selection axis. Based on this idea, this paper intends to analyze and interpret Saussure's thought by relying on the substitutional axis and choice of al-Imran and attempts to disclose the criterion of the selection of some inflectional words and its preference for other inflectional words. The obtained results show that inflectional chosen words are entirely based on the totality of the Surah, that is, unity in the sense that there is a strong connection between the inflectional chosen word and the totality of the Surah. Moreover, extraction of hidden meanings in the text as well as the discovery of works and miracle signs depends on this axis.