Discourse Analysis and How to Apply it to Quranic Studies

Nowadays, one of the important principles is how to systematize the studies in different domains of human sciences. In this regard, many scholars have been interested in knowing the Quran systematic ally. Linguistics, semiotics, pragmatics, and semantics are among the disciplines that have nowadays had tremendous impact on the systematic understanding the Quran, and have opened up new horizons in religious studies.However, the present research seeks to introduce another method into the domain of Quranic studies and to discuss how to apply it to this domain. This method called discourse analysis or discourse study is somehow a combination of aforementioned disciplines. In fact, this method is resulted from the findings of studies on language by scholars and researchers of several disciplines such as philosophers, psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, etc.The present paper first investigates the concept of discourse in order to achieve how to apply discourse study to Quranic verses. Then, it makes some remarks on the history and different stages of discourse analysis.