Consonance in the Qur'an. A Conceptual, Intertextual and Linguistic Analysis

by Hussein Abdul-Raof

Consonance in the Qur'an provides an in-depth text linguistic analysis of Qur'anic discourse. The lexicogrammatical selections, intertextual meaning relations, the textual notions of conceptual connectivity and intertextuality are expounded with variegated examples. This text linguistic approach is a vital source for literary semiotics. The textual feature of consonance contributes effectively in the conceptual thrust of the text. This book provides a detailed account of inter and intra-sentence consonance in Arabic. It explicates the impact of contextual and co-textual factors upon the occurrence of the verb, passive participle, active participle, plural of paucity, plural of multitude, the feminine noun, and the phonetic form of a given lexical item. It also investigates rigorously the different levels of linguistic analysis in the light of the modern European linguistic theory of text linguistics.

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Published January 1, 2005