Pessimism in the Glorious Quran: A Semantic Study
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https://doi.org/10.31185/eduj.Vol49.Iss2.3350Keywords:
Pessimism, Semantics, Denotative meaning, Connotative meaning, Glorious Quran.Abstract
The present study tends to investigate the term pessimism linguistically in Arabic religious discourse. Pessimism is carried out by different linguistic terms. The study aims at identifying the different pessimistic expressions in the Glorious Quran and the relationship among them through the linguistic model which is adopted to analyse the data. It consists of the contextual analysis of the data through Hymes’ (1974) speaking model and the semantic analysis through Leech’s (1983) seven types of meaning. The study employs a qualitative theoretical method to analyse three Quranic texts which include pessimism in the Glorious Quran. The number of data is limited to three to eliminate redundancy. The study reveals that pessimism is of three levels and is conveyed mainly by the three leveled near-synonyms from down to up rate ((قنوط, يأس, تطير (augur, despair, utter despair) which cannot be used interchanchabely because each word has its contribution and a specific meaning although they share the meaning of being pessimistic. Eventually, pessimism in the Glorious Quran is associated with the term (كفور) (ungrateful) which indicates that pessimism is forbidden and undesirable behavior.
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