The Pragmatic Dimension of Qur’anic Scripts

Conference on Cultural Diversity, the Basis of National Integration, College of Arts/Wasit University 2022

Abstract

Qur’anic scripts are characterized by their unique methodology in writing which is different from Orthographic ones, a widely known form in Arabic. Many phrases in the Holy Qur’an differ in their written form from their counterpart s in other verses; as a result, this difference might draw the reader’s attention since it does not come haphazardly. On the contrary, such phrases have been used carrying snblime meanings  intended by the Almighty Allah.

The current study touches upon the pragmatic dimensions performed by the Qur’anic scripts for such phrases and explicates what these phrases can provide us with illocutionary meaning which is differs from one morphological structure to another via studying selected samples representing the aspects of divergence between this script and the standard orthographic one. These aspects are: addition, deletion, opposite, glottalization , etc.