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- Title
The Pragmatic Approach In Arabic Heritage.
- Authors
Al Najar, Mohammed Jassim Waheb
- Abstract
Pragmatics is an outstanding breakthrough that language researchers are interested in. It is an approach first explored by west philosophers and soon gained currency in linguistics. It is concerned with language meaning in use. It has outspread all over the world because it deals with language meaning which is the essential concern of any linguistic activity. The study aims at sorting out how Arabic researchers have proved the existence of western linguistic theories in the Arabic heritage and demonstrated the significance of the pragmatic approach in studying meaning in Arabic heritage. The hypothesis of the study tries to answer whether Arab scholars are in need of modern linguistic theories; whether they have any achievements in modern linguistics; whether old Arab linguists formed linguistic theories and whether Arabic heritage contains the basics for modern theories. The study is confined to investigating the pragmatic approaches in the heritage school of rhetoricians, grammarians and clergy men. Therefore, the research is a pure theoretical study. It just collects information to review knowledge on the topic. In other words, there is no practical section nor is there any model to be applied in the study. The study concludes that modern Arab scholars have not cared enough for Arabic heritage which has the basics for contemporary theories; a project of translating the heritage books into other languages is indispensable to show the whole world that pragmatics is not completely a new trend, rather an old trend existing between the lines in the old Arabic books; Arab students of today rarely read in the old heritage books and the endeavor to prove the existence of the modern west linguistic theories in the heritage books made Arab researchers start to search in them.
- Subjects
ARABS; RESEARCH personnel; ARAB students; CLERGY; LINGUISTS
- Publication
College of Basic Education Researches Journal, 2023, Vol 19, Issue 3, p759
- ISSN
1992-7452
- Publication type
Article