The semantic approach in understanding and analyzing the Qur’anic discourse among the Ash’aris

Abstract

This research studies, “The semantic approach in understanding and analyzing Quranic discourse” from the perspective of a semantic study that aims to clarify the most important tools of semantic research and their role in revealing the secrets of Quranic discourse, as the study of semantics is considered one of the most important topics on which understanding the text and discourse between the speaker and the listener is based. It has great merit in understanding the text and arriving at the speaker’s intent. Semantic research is considered one of the most important branches of Arabic linguistics and one of its most important topics. Its importance increases if it is linked to understanding and analyzing religious text and discourse, whether that text and discourse is a Qur’anic text or a noble Prophetic hadith. The student of the Qur’anic text and Hadith al-Nawawi must do his best and take into account all the angles of meaning and its tools in order to arrive at the true meaning of the Shariah behind the words and verbal discourse. In light of this, I used the descriptive and analytical approach in order to understand the semantic approach in the discourse of the Holy Qur’an. The scope of the research expanded into four sections as follows: 1) The first topic: I placed it under the title “Conceptual Principles” 2) The second section: It was responsible for researching “mechanisms for understanding Quranic discourse.” 3) The third topic: In which I talked about “Types of significance in the Qur’anic discourse.” 4) The fourth section: I devoted it to mentioning a group of samples and applications for semantic research in the Holy Qur’an and demonstrated their impact on the coherence between verbal and conceptual meaning in Quranic discourse. The conclusion was to mention the most important findings that I reached through the research. Keywords: method, connotation, Quranic discourse, types of connotations, mechanisms of connotation, understanding the text.