The intentionality of the text, the standard for reading and receiving in the Arab and Western critical heritage

Abstract

When delving into any field of research or cognitive study, it is necessary to define the concept of the term; because it removes illusion and clarifies the path along which the terms move, clarifying their meanings from which the meaning of the text can be understood. The term text, whose definition is still under debate, has been subject to the intended meaning, despite the fact that in all Arab heritage studies, no mention of this term was found.

     Arab scholars relied on the theories and sayings of Western scholars, in order to read and interrogate the heritage, which led to the difficulty of capturing the features of this term, to the point where contemporary Arab thought began to attract with the West its terms that came to us, and because it is a linguistic activity completed in a specific space-time, carrying individual and collective characteristics that reflect the environment. In which it was created, its concept formed a pole for contemporary studies related to it under many names, including: textual science, textual linguistics, and textual grammar. It witnessed widespread interest in Arab and Western studies until it began to devote a science to it itself, which was called (textual science).

     The text is considered the basic unit of analysis and description among linguists, as it is what the meaning appears through, and it means what can only be interpreted with one meaning. It was said that what cannot be interpreted, and it was said what increases clarity over the apparent meaning of the speaker. Perhaps the science of theology, rhetoric, and jurisprudence are among the sciences that contributed. In developing its meaning, due to the effort to understand the structure of the Qur’anic text, its clarification and understanding, because the Qur’anic text is characterized by its perfection, it is indistinguishable from other texts, and that “it can only bear one meaning.