Supplication in English Biblical Verses and Arabic Prophetic Hadiths: Pragmalinguistic Study
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Supplication, as one of the most crucial parts of religious rituals in many religions such as English biblical verses and Arabic prophetic hadiths, can express misery, guide, help and request things from a higher authority (God). This study seeks to examine the pragmatic behavior of supplication in both English biblical verses and Arabic Prophetic hadiths. Be contingent with Searle’s (1969, 1979) treatment of SAs and Kareem (2009) felicity conditions of supplication, 25 biblical verses and 25 Prophetic hadiths are chosen to be pragmatically analyzed utilizing mixed methods research. The analysis reveals that both texts underscore personal emotions and heavenly direction, with supplication functioning as both an expressive and prescriptive act via the use of various syntactic structures and lexical items.
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal the right of first publication, with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.
References
Adeniran. (2020). , K. & Salako, T. A. An exposition into the role of du’a
(supplication) in da’wah programmes (proselytization). UJAMAA: Journal of Islamic
Thought, 30, Article 201. https://doi.org/10.33102/uij.vol30no.201. .
Ali. (2017). , M. H. The power of the spoken word: Prayer, invocation, and
supplication in Islam. In Spirituality and the good life: Philosophical approaches .
Allan. (1986). , K. Linguistic Meaning. Vol. 2. New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul,
Inc.
Bach. (1979). , K., & Harnish, R. Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
Barron. (2017). , A., Gu, Y. & Steen, G. The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics. New
York: Routledge.
Bublitz. (2011). , W., Jucker, A. H. & Schneider, K. P. Foundation of pragmatics.
Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Crystal. (1985). , D. A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. 2nd Edition. New York:
Basil Blackwell.
Haugh. (2021). , M., Kádár, D. Z., & Terkourafi, M. (Eds.). The Cambridge Handbook
of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781108954105 .
Huang. (2013). , Y. Speech Acts and Literature. London: Routledge.
Kareem. (2009). , S. Linguistic analysis of supplication in Standard English and
Standard Arabic with reference to liturgical language. Journal of Al-Qadisiya
University, 12(2), 7-25.
Kasher. (1998). , A. Pragmatics: Critical Concepts: Speech Act Theory and Particular
Speech Acts (Vol. 2). London: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
Leech. (1983). , G. Principles of pragmatics. London: Longman.
Mey. (1993). , J. L. Pragmatics: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Searl. (1969). , J. R. Speech Acts. London: Cambridge University Press.
Searle. (1979). , J. Expression and Meaning: Studies in The Theory of Speech Acts.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Searle. (1985). , J. & Vanderveken, D. Foundation of Illocutionary Logic. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Vanderveken. (1990). , D. Meaning and speech acts: Principles of language use (Vol.
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press