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A Pragmatic Study of Empathetic Deixis in the Holy Quran

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Last updated: 05 Jan 2025

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الترجمة الإنـجليزية

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to unveil the empathetic implicatures embedded in the language aspects of reference switching, demonstratives, and passive voice in the light of the two theories of John Lyons's (1977) empathetic deixis and Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson's (1995) relevance theory. The data analyzed are 323 empathetic deictic elements (i.e. 61 cases of reference switching, 131 cases of demonstratives, and 131 cases of passive voice) occurring in 74 Surahs from the Holy Quran. The analysis has revealed that each of the language aspects under investigation can imply both emotional proximity to or emotional distance from the referent(s)/the addressee(s). Moreover, some syntactic and semantic properties of these three language aspects are found to stand as an evidence of the empathetic implicatures intended. Finally, both pragmatic processes of decoding and inference are deduced to be essential for apprehending the empathetic implicatures embedded. The pragmatic process of inference is recommended to be applied through consulting authentic exegeses when dealing with empathetic deictic elements.

DOI

10.21608/aakj.2023.170391.1347

Keywords

Keywords: empathetic deixis, empathetic implicature, the principle of relevance

Authors

First Name

جميلة

Last Name

عبد العال

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كلية الآداب جامعة اسيوط

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gamilaabdelaal1@gmail.com

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اسيوط

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Volume

30

Article Issue

85

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39730

Issue Date

2023-01-01

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2022-10-23

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2023-01-01

Page Start

629

Page End

664

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2537-0022

Online ISSN

2537-0030

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23

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بحوث علمية محکمة

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1,667

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Publication Title

المجلة العلمیة لکلیة الآداب-جامعة أسیوط

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A Pragmatic Study of Empathetic Deixis in the Holy Quran

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28 Dec 2024