The Use of Textual Context in Structural Semantics of the Holy Qur’an

Structural semantics of the Qur’an determines the meaning of vocabulary through Qur’anic text as well as syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations. In this method, it is focused on the linguistic units of ‘word’ and ‘sentence’, regardless of ‘discourse’. Therefore, a part of the context of verses for understanding the meaning is not to be considered. Increasing the accuracy of structural semantics of the Qur’an, based on the descriptive-analytical method, the present research seeks to explore how to apply semantic relations between sentences and conceptual paradigmatic relations, in order to take advantage of textual context. Thus by defining semantic complementary, contradictory and booster relations between sentences, corresponding relations between words, more than what is determined through a single sentence, would be at hand. Also attention to conceptual paradigmatic relations, that is a description or exemplification of a concept, reveals more features of the word. In this regard, in addition to more syntagmatic and paradigmatic cases, the relation between words are determined more precisely as well.