نشریه پژوهش های زبان شناختی قرآن
سال سیزدهم شماره 2 (Autumn-Winter 2024)

The order of the verses in the Holy Quran has been examined with various approaches. These studies focus more on the wording of rhetoric in one verse, and sometimes the reason one verse is arranged after another. Understanding the Qur'an can be achieved in a variety of ways; Including a step-by-step examination of the whole, which first begins with the elements of the surah and ends with an intertextual relationship. The present study suggests a new model for the transformation of the study of the Qur'an's understanding, which is the promotion of understanding the Surah "Al-Taqabon's" from simple to complex models. This study seeks to examine the part-to-whole division to understand this surah by adopting a descriptive-analytical method. Studies show that simple models of "Al-Taqabon" surah are understanding the elements of verses related to the knowledge of singularities and understanding a proposition that is in the field of knowledge of Waqf and Ibteda. Complex models of understanding Surah "Al-Taqabon" are also a paragraph-oriented understanding related to the knowledge of "Rokooat", a surah-oriented understanding that is related to purposeful knowledge; in the sense that each surah has a specific purpose that encompasses the general spirit of the surah verses and understanding a surah that is achieved in the form of marriage and group relationship. Surah "Al-Taqabon" has a marital relationship with Surah "Al-Munafiqun" and is associated with "Mosabbahat" surahs.

Sound is one of the effective factors in creating artistic images of the Holy Qur'an, which has a deep compatibility with the content, deciphering the meanings and propositions of the text. This alignment of sound (phonetic) and meaning (semantic) opens up new levels of knowledge to the audience so that with Every change in phonemes, syllables, words, and musical context, semantic variables are also changed. A new image is formed through these sound approaches. For this purpose, phonetic fit and content, which is discussed in linguistics under the title of "Phono semantics", has been included in the scope of this Qur'anic research using the analytical-descriptive method, and the compatibility of letters, diacritical signs, words, and rhythm of the verses of Surah Sajdah with the meanings have been examined and specified; In Surah Sajdah, each of these sounds is well placed in its role in such a way that under the influence of meaning, the sound spreads from the smallest component to the entire context, and a phonetic and semantic overlap that is appropriate to the central theme, highlights the role of the surah's images.

Qasr, which means assigning one thing to another and denying it to someone else, is one of the most used rhetorical styles in the Holy Qur'an, that God, in various subjects, according to the needs of the audience, to express his intention and understand its meaning more precisely, has used special ways of this style. Scholars of rhetoric have mentioned several divisions for the Qasr, in which more attention is paid to the sides of the Qasr. This research aims to present a new division for the Qasr based on the unity of the subject and the multiplicity of styles of the Qasr. Being careful in the verses containing Qasr styles, we notice that the theologian sometimes expresses a single topic in different ways, so that sometimes by using one Qasr style, he expresses his intended meaning, and on the other hand, sometimes he uses more than several styles in a single context or contexts. This can be seen as a means for a new division of the Qasr. This research aims to present the said division, and with a descriptive-analytical method, to answer questions such as, what new ways of rhetoric of Qasr styles can be proposed in the word of revelation. With a comparative analysis of overlapping, consecutive, and dispersed types of Qasr, it is determined with the Qur'anic evidence that the two elements of the unity of the subject and the context play an essential role in the definition of the compound Qasr; Also, the scope of the context determines the types of compound Qasr.

Prayer is one of the highest religious teachings that plays an important role in spiritual education and the flourishing of the human soul. By praying, man declares his neediness, poverty, and ultimate servitude before God. The supplications of the prophets in the Holy Qur'an are among the discourses that have impact, coherence, and purposeful structure in the pragmatic and practical field of language and realize complex pragmatic meanings. The present study tries to analyze the language use of these prayers and the function of actions used in them by using the descriptive-analytical method and relying on Searle's speech act theory. One of the achievements of the research is that the language used in the verses is pragmatic in the sense that the words and sentences are not only productive but seek to implement action and change the outside world for the benefit of their users. The prayers of the prophets in the Qur'an, based on the model of John Searle, are based on three actions, which according to frequency are: 1) Persuasive action that is generally used in the form of indirect action, and the power in its statement is begging. In this action, the characteristic of power and dominance plays a fundamental role in the execution of the action; 2) Declarative action which has been used in both direct and indirect speech acts, and the power in its statement is confession and explanation; 3) Emotional action which is often used in the form of direct speech acts and the power in its statement includes remorse and regret. Of these three actions that are widely used in prayers, persuasive and declarative actions have the aspect of public expediency, and emotional action has the personal aspect and mental draining of the supplicant.

One of the ways to achieve semantic subtleties and deepen the understanding of texts is to pay attention to the conceptual relationships between words. This matter finds a special place in the words of the Holy Qur'an. Therefore, the upcoming research based on the analytical-descriptive method, has investigated and analyzed the conceptual relations of the word "Tsawil" in the Holy Quran with other accompanying and substitute words. The components that are effective in the semantics of the word "Taswil" with the purpose of substitution are Eqva, Tazeen, Zokhroph, Tahliyah, Tahsin, and Tabarj, and in the accompanying vocabulary section, the words of Nafs, Saitan, and Emla have been examined. Finally, it is confirmed that Taswil is an act of the human soul and it refers to a special meaning of decoration that is related to human desires. On this occasion, this emotional power is also called the responsible self (Mosawaleh), in the sense that what is far from the truth is seen as pleasing in the sight of man and causes slippage and fault in human decision-making.

Rhetoric is an effective and persuasive speech that, although its origin goes back to ancient Greece, its traces can be found in the life of Jahili Arabs - especially in peaceful matters. Since the Qur'an appeared in such a culture and has an elaborate structure, it is necessary to examine the extent of the Qur'an's use of rhetorical expression. In this research, by examining the verses of the Holy Quran in the fields of reasoning, counting, and classifying them inductively, it becomes clear that the arguments of the Quran are beyond the conventional ways, especially in philosophy. The arguments of the Qur'an are based on features that can involve other dimensions of human perceptions besides the rational aspect; such as reflecting on everyday observations, feelings, conscientious understanding, and mental imagery; As a result, in this way, they leave an all-round and deeper impact on its audience. These characteristics can be considered as rhetorical characteristics in the Qur'an's way of reasoning.

This research investigated lexical defamiliarization in Yusuf (AS) surah based on the theory of Formalists' Cognitive Linguistics. The linguistic model of the formalists (formalism) can be a powerful tool to indicate defamiliarized lexical meanings in the surah. Lexical defamiliarization is defined as avoiding the norms of literal meanings not to conform to the standard language. The lexical concepts are linguistically outside the direct meaning in the text. In light of the lexical decoding of unconventional concepts, the Holy Quran tries to make the readers think to decode the indirect lexical meanings and achieve the verses' purposes. The present research was carried out in a descriptive-analytical way based on Leech's theory (1969). The results of data analysis showed that the lexical defamiliarization words that occurred in Yusuf (AS) surah can be divided into two parts: lexical defamiliarized words that were mentioned only once holding the highest frequency and lexical defamiliarized words that were mentioned twice and had a lower frequency. The findings showed that lexical defamiliarization in this surah has greatly contributed to the beauty of the surah plot shaping the form of metaphorical concepts and aesthetic effects.

Onomastics is one of the branches of linguistics that includes a wide field of various sciences; The history of Onomastics goes back to the end of the nineteenth century, which is the period of compiling the principles and rules of historical linguistics. This knowledge first studies the names from different geographical, historical, social, and linguistic angles and explains various signification realms regarding the reasons for the names, according to different aspects. In the linguistic realm itself, the structure of names can be examined and analyzed from different aspects. In the present research, we have analyzed the names of popular and famous mystical interpretations from the perspective of the semantic core, in a descriptive-analytical method. The obtained results of the research show that in the names where the word "facts" is the focus of the name of the work and the name has an additional structure, contrary to the common practice in such analyses, the second part should be considered the core of the composition. This feature is also seen in the works where the word "secrets" is used, while in many of the names of the interpretations that have the word "expression" added to them, the core of the composition is the same as their first part; In other words, these names are among the names inside the center. What is very worthy of attention in this research are the names that jar and majrour can be seen in their structure. Such cases can be included as additional compound names. In addition, in this field, we are dealing with names that we should consider as having no specific nucleus.