Semantic oppositions of the Right in the Quran Relying on the Structural Semantics

One of the prominent features of a language is the Semantic opposition which has been developed in the modern structural semantics. Semantic opposition is one kind of the conceptual relations at the level of words, by which as well as other conceptual relationships, the semantic field of the vocabulary can be obtained. Recognition of the antonyms of each word is effective in making the exact meaning of the word clear. Discovering the semantic field is based on one of the accepted and practical oppositions in semantics. Regarding the meaning of Haq (=right), there are dispersed works in the field of law, whereas no independent research has been carried out with regard to its semantic oppositions. Hence the present study as an independent one is conducted. The current paper has been carried out through a descriptive-analytic method to explain the semantic opposition of Haq and Batil (right and wrong) in the Holy Koran on the basis of lexical semantics. By making a distinction among the semantic components of Haq and Batil separately, it concluded that the word Haq has 3 antonyms in the Holy Koran. Haq is in complementary opposition with such words as باطل, کذب, and لعب. It is in lexical opposition with the expression بغیر الحق and in implicit opposition with such words as ظن, شرک and ظلم.