نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
استاد / مدرسه علمیه معصومیه / قم / ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
One of the functions of language, according to Jakobson's communication theory, is the phatic function, which relates to the "contact" element in verbal communication. Within the Arabic rhetorical tradition (balāgha) concerning the purposes (aghrāḍ) of structural phenomena, certain objectives are occasionally mentioned that align with this function—objectives such as encouragement (iqbāl), motivation (tashwīq), stimulation (tanshīṭ), and alerting (tambīh).
In this article, these two semantic approaches are comparatively studied through an analytical method using Quranic examples. The comparative analysis reveals that devices, stylistic features, and phenomena—such as vocative particles (nidāʾ), alerting particles (ādāt al-tambīh), interrogatives (istifhām), surah-opening styles (asālībfawātiḥ al-suwar), foregrounding (taqdīm), thematic interruption (takhallulmawḍūʿī), expatiation (iṭnāb), grammatical shift/perspective change (iltifāt), pluralization (jamʿ), verse endings (fawāṣil al-āyāt), and semantic ambiguity (īhām)—explicitly possess a phatic function, as acknowledged by literary scholars and exegetes (udabāʾwamufassirūn).
This function sometimes operates as the primary objective and other times subsidiarily. Consequently, numerous Quranic statements are intentionally formulated to embed within the text the capacity to establish, maintain, and strengthen communicative contact.
This finding underscores the extent to which the Noble Quran attends to the "contact" element in verbal communication and leverages the phatic capacity of language. The result can serve as evidence supporting two theories about the Quranic language: its orality and its conventionality (ʿurfī), as the frequency and distribution of these phenomena in the Quran are inconsistent with the structure of written or non-conventional texts.
کلیدواژهها [English]
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