A Linguistic Survey on Discourse Connectives across Mecca vs. Medinna Suras

Arezu MOLAVI VARDANJANI

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A Linguistic Survey on Discourse Connectives across Mecca vs. Medinna Suras

Authors:

Arezu MOLAVI VARDANJANI

Publisher:

Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi

Journal:

Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi 2015 Vol.36 Issue 3, pp.1425-1438

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

5/2015

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2000921484

Frequency:

Quarterly

eISSN:

2587-246X

pISSN:

2587-2680

Abstract:

 


Abstract. This discriptive analysis article seeks to investigate the discourse connectives inside and between verses of some Meccan vs Medinan suras. Since Arabic language has no punctuation mark, linguists pay much attention to discourse connectives in various stylic-semantic and functional levels mostly because of their multifunctional meanings that leads to different annotations of suras. Therefore it seems that paying attention to formal vs semantic signals as well as stylistic variations can be helpful to distinguish Meccan vs Medinan suras.

Results show that the linking words وَ, ثُم, الا, فَ and اِذا have the most frequency in both Mecca and Medina suras. Besides, the discourse connectives in Mecca and Medina verses are usually occurred in initial and middle positions, which concerning the Mecca verses, they are mostly applied in initial position, while they typically appear in the middle position in Medina ones. This issue can be justified given the length of Medina verses compared with Mecca verses.

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Article Details

A Linguistic Survey on Discourse Connectives across Mecca vs. Medinna Suras

Authors: Arezu MOLAVI VARDANJANI

Publisher: Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi

Journal: Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi 2015 Vol.36 Issue 3, pp.1425-1438

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 5/2015

Document Language: Turkish

Document ID (Org No.): 2000921484

Frequency: Quarterly

eISSN: 2587-246X

pISSN: 2587-2680

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Authors:

Arezu MOLAVI VARDANJANI

Publisher:

Sivas Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi

Journal:

Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Fen Bilimleri Dergisi 2015 Vol.36 Issue 3, pp.1425-1438

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

5/2015

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2000921484

Frequency:

Quarterly

eISSN:

2587-246X

pISSN:

2587-2680