Figurative Language of Metaphors in the Holy Quran

Abstract

As a system of communication, language has literal and figurative meanings. In the case of literal language, words are used to express meaning as defined, while in the case of figurative language, words are used to provide room for interpretation. A profound contemplation done by some linguists shows that Holy Qur’an uses two kinds of meanings, they are haqiqi (literal language) and majazi (figurative languages). In this case, metaphors or figurative language is used as a persuasive device to strengthen Muslims’ faith in God and convince disbelievers to believe in God.

Verses of Impossibility in the Holy Quran: A Grammatical and Rhetorical Analysis

“…The unique linguistic characteristics of the Quranic discourse have been the focus of a plethora of research studies in the literature such as the miraculous nature of the Qura'n and its ability to defy imitability and hence translatability (El Mallah, 2022); appraisal of the use of metaphors in the Holy Qur'an (Msoke, & Msuya, 2023); a pragmatic study of irony in some selected Quranic verses (Al-Nasrawi & Dawood, 2022); the discourse of Qur'anic metaphors and comprehension of the Holy Qur'an (Atabik, 2021); the rhetoric of ironic discourse of the Qur'an (Abuisaac, Sapar & Wolf, 2020); pragmatic meaning of questions in verses about stories in the Holy Qur'an (Santosa, Nurkamto, Baidan & Sumarlam, 2017); the figurative language of metaphors in the Holy Quran (Mutammam, 2016); emotiveness and translational equivalence of irony and their interface with other figures of speech in the Quranic discourse (Abuisaac, Zaidan, Alshater & Bin Sapar, 2021); interpretation and translation of figures of speech in the Holy Qur'an (Rshaid, & Abuisaac, 2021); analysis of figurative language translation in the Quran (Alasbli, 2020); analysis of four English translations of Kināyah as a figure of speech in the Qur'an (Naseef, 2018); explicitation in the translation of Qurʾānic binomials (Al-Otaibi, 2023); examples of Arabic binomials in the Holy Quran (Al-Jarf, 2016); aesthetics of artistic expression in the Qur'an (Aram, 2016); rhetorical functions of topos in Qur'anic discourse (Saloomi, 2022); discourse analysis and the rhetorical function of deixis in the Holy Qur'an (Al Ali & El Sharif, 2016); a rhetorical study of selected verses in the Glorious Quran (Mayuuf, 2017); a pragmatic perspective of figurative language used in Surat Al-Baqarah (Cahyaningsih, Maryadi, & Ariatmi, 2014); itineraries in the translation history of the Quran (Al-Jarf, 2014) and others.…”

Figurative Language in the Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran: An Analysis of Language Style as Stylistic Effect

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