Function of the Qur’anic Apostrophe in Creating Continuity and Semantic Ambiance by Withdrawing from the Norm Language

Apostrophe is among the stylist features of the Holy Qur’an and one of the evidences of agenda-setting that by withdrawing from the norm language and defamiliarization, it becomes like unprecedented bringing up a subject and causes dissociation in parts of speech. With an analytical-descriptive method, this article would study some examples of the verses containing contextual apostrophe in the Qur’an. Apostrophe, in a prescriptive view to syntax is a factor of weakening continuity of components in the sentence. The writer maintains that if this art is studied with a descriptive look at syntax based on the Qur’an’s lingual system and semantic relations as well as functioning by reliance upon literal taste, it would yield a different outcome. From this perspective, this art would invisibly, create semantic layers beyond phrases and would bind parts of speech together and respond to the addressee’s sense of beauty.