Journal Dawat

The study of speech acts has received a great deal of attention by linguists, philosophers, and researchers. Among these speech acts is the praise speech act.Praise is , in fact , part of the positive politeness strategies which people always use to give support and confidence to each other. Praise represents a social strategy in that the speaker uses in his/her attempts to create rapport and relationship with the listener.For the sake of presenting and discussing the act of praising whether explicit or implicit, this research is carried out to shed light on the linguistic devices of praise in selected verses of the Holy Quran focusing on three levels of concern : Pragmatics ,semantics and syntax. After the analysis,the research finds out that praise is expressed both explicitly and implicitly ,in particular by the use of adjectives.

The research discusses the phenomenon of putting first and putting last the expressions in the arrangement of things in Qur’an according to their context , meanings and purposes. This is done in two sections as well as the introduction and conclusion. The study reveals that many ancient scholars exerted great efforts in extrapolating this linguistic phenomenon , its types and aspects ,and detecting its purposes and secrets in an effort to reveal the truth about the rhetorical inimitability of the Qur’an through the manner of grammatical and semantic choice. The study arrives at a significant result which is the new arrangement through the manner of putting last in the Holy Quran gives it a unique expressive composition ,which can be regarded as a movement away from the emulated original which the language makes through the use of words and meanings. This raises the following question in the reader’s mind, why are the things arranged in this manner that contradicts our logical experience? In addition, the phenomenon of putting first and putting last does not occur in vain but rather it has a purely rhetorical purpose which is to attract the recipient’s attention for a specific purpose which cannot be achieved without such an arrangement .

Arab criticism in particular must develop its particular methods in order to be open to texts which apply new techniques that are capable of inspiring the Arabic heritage in all its forms. Some of these texts are based on different elements such as fear, hesitation , surprise, journey, perplexity, disappearances , magic and reincarnation.They can show us that the Arabic heritage is replete with the fictional scenes that evoke receiver›s surprise. So this research is conducted to examine The miraculous Place in the Tales «Janat Al-Ma›wa» of Sheikh Mirza Hussein Altabrsi

The research attempts to pin point the concepts of text Linguistics and discourse analysis because of the controversies that have intermingled these concepts.The study attempts to pave away that illusion by separating between them . To achieve this aim ,the research is divided into four sections. The first clarifies the terms text, text Linguistics and then it chooses four theories in order to explain to the reader the nature of this branch of linguistics . These theories are: Halliday and Hassan , Van Dike, De Bougrand , Petofi.It is concluded that this approach depends on linguistic arrangement and the performance of speech acts.
The second section focuses on those figures who support the synonymity of the two terms; they were Westerners and Arabs. The third section explains the concept of discourse analysis according to four pioneers : Bachteen , Harris, Brown ,Yule, and Norman Fairclough. The fourth section concludes the research by focusing on the cause of the confusion that accompanies the two terms, which is the result of illusion of sameness between the two.

The research addresses some of the key issues about poetry in the ancient and modern times ,and the conflict between them over the word poetry and its meaning . The study also deals with plagiarism, poetic telepathy among poets, and the place of poetry among other arts, in particular the anecdotal arts. Poetry is the most important and influential art on the recipient .The study also explains the importance of imagination to poetry, the difference between poetry and prose which is another literary genre, the historical conflict between poetry which is a famous prosodic dactyls and a well-versed poetry of Rajaz and whether all the patterned recurrence can be called poetry or not. The research concludes that poetry is an art form that is different from the rest of the arts, or even different from other speech styles.

This research discusses the impact of plagiarism on the development of grammar .It also explains the different ways to modify it in order to avoid confusion and give everyone their own suitable place.The study choses two of the most questionable books claimed to belong to their authors in order to show the negative impact played by plagiarism on grammar. These books are : Aljumal attributed to Khalil ibn Ahmad Al-Farahidi written in (175 higra) and Muqadama Fi Alnahu attributed to Khalaf Al-Ahmar (180 higra).The research is divided into three sections , beside the introduction .The most important finding of the research is that plagiarism and falsifying target in the first place the credibility of the top scholars of Arabic like Sibawayh and his student Al-Farahidi , and secondly it atlacks the reliability of the followers of grammar school and its history , in particular the scholars of the century in which the first features of linguistic studies were identified ,and foundations and the perspectives of the syntactic theory were established . This plagiarism and falsifying hit the essence of truth , in particular the earlier great names in order to affect grammar badly.This issue has caused massive instability in the use of grammatical terms, overlap of scientific opinions, their persistence and attribution to their authors , the loss of the rights of the authors and falsifying

The technical image in the Arab poem considered As a building stone of poem, or the most prominent feature in the structure, and recent studies have shown the importance of image in the technical construction of the poem In addition to the offer of substantial means in the analysis of the elements because it is a measure of differentiation among poets. The poets have been used more than one method to deliver a poetic images. we will offer a range of selected images of the poets who were the subject of this study.

This research studies analytically the book “Ma’ani Alhroof “ of Al-Rommani (384 higra) to highlight the methodology of this book taking in mind Al-Rommani’s character .This character was superior in piety and righteousness, and skillful in different sciences. He had a deep knowledge in many sciences , like grammar , linguistics, rhetoric and Prosody,in addition to the interpretation of Quran , Quran readings , fundamentals of religion , language , discourse and logic.
The research is divided into some sections .The first discusses Al-Rommani in brief . The second gives an analysis of his book .The third deals with his doctrine of grammar . The fourth deals with his methodology in his book . The fifth gives a snap shot of his book .The sixth focuses on the shortcomings .The study ends with some conclusions . Al-Rommani ‘s style is described with ease and simplicity.He was interested in the causes which means that he intended to form rules and consolidate them.

This research represents a humble effort in studying the pragmatic dimension of passive voice in the Quran. The research is divided into three sections: the first explains the term pragmatics in terms of form and function , the second focuses on passive voice according to syntax and pragmatics, and the third presents an analysis of the verses from a pragmatic view point .The research ends with the conclusion that passive voice is used in the Qur’anic text, such as the omission of item which can be retrieved depending on some clues and context of use .The grammatical structure itself might directly mean something while the recipient understands the indirect meaning depending on his/her capacity in interpreting the external clues as well as his Qura’nic knowledge.