Linguistic functions and semantic relations in the Meccan and Madani words of the Holy Qur'an

Subject Areas : Quarterly Sabzevaran Fadak

Saeed Zare ¹ (Ph.D. Candidate of General Linguistics, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran)
Mohammad Hossein Sharafzadeh ² (Department of Linguistics, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran)
Ameneh Zare ³ (Department of Linguistics, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran)
Saeed Hozouri ⁴ (Department of Islamic Education, Jahrom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Jahrom, Iran)

Received: 2022-04-18 Accepted : 2024-06-23 Published : 2024-07-10

Keywords: Qur&#039, an, Linguistic functions, Madani words, Meccan words, Semantic relations,

Abstract :

With the expansion of interdisciplinary studies, linguistics, which is the science of language study, as a science that has various applications in the humanities, also found a special place in the field of Quranic research. One of the linguistic approaches to Qur'anic studies is structural semantics, which studies the Holy Qur'an in a new way. Therefore, this research, which has been done by content analysis method, seeks to study the words of the Holy Qur'an in the two groups of Meccan and Madani, extract linguistic functions and find cohesion or noncohesion of meaning between them. For this purpose, first, the most frequent Meccan and Madani special words of the Holy Qur'an were extracted and after examining the lexical and semantic information by drawing tables and diagrams, the linguistic functions were extracted and their semantic relations were examined. The results of the studies showed that the language functions used in the two groups are different and the words studied in each group have a thematic and conceptual relationship.