Quranic Discourse Analysis: Between Classical Linguistic Tradition and Modern Linguistics

Abstract

    This research investigates Quranic discourse at the intersection of classical Arabic rhetoric and modern linguistic theories. A comparative approach reveals that classical scholars, such as Al-Jurjani and Al-Zamakhshari, intuitively grasped the intricacies of textual coherence and pragmatic dimensions long before contemporary terminology emerged, despite the absence of modern conceptual frameworks in their works.

Modern linguistics—encompassing textual, pragmatic, and cognitive branches—does not negate this heritage. Rather, it serves as a scientific mechanism that deconstructs the underlying principles of this intuitive understanding, translating classical concepts like mugtada al-hal (contextual appropriateness) into "pragmatic context," and nazm(construction) into "textual coherence."

Ultimately, the rigorous methodological application of linguistic theories unveils new dimensions of the Quran's rhetorical inimitability. However, these theories do not confine the text’s eloquence; the Quranic discourse perpetually transcends all human analytical tools, rendering every linguistic framework profoundly inadequate.