The critical efforts of syntacticians on the issue of the connection of pronunciation with meaning

Abstract

This study is concerned with revealing the attention syntacticians paid to the relationship of pronunciation to meaning, and its impact on producing connotations that contribute to understanding literary discourse and expanding the field of interpreting meanings with it. They paid attention to the duality of pronunciation and meaning in terms of correlation, and the lack of separation between them in the Holy Qur’an and poetry, contrary to the position of the Mu’tazilites and theologians, and those influenced by them. Among the critics and some syntacticians who called for the separation between pronunciation and meaning on the one hand, and the rational meanings apparent through the pronunciation alone on the other hand, the syntacticians became familiar with the meanings of the Qur’an and its metaphors, and in criticizing poetry. Their opinions emerged through their explanations of collections and poetic anthologies..

This study demonstrates the syntacticians understanding of this dual relationship on several levels, and the resulting critical terminology that enriched the critical lesson with its various and special connotations at the levels of the connection between the word and the meaning and the separation between them, such as: (metaphor, representation, and inversion), (presentation and delay), (deletion and repetition), and (Hiding and revealing) and (compensation, disclosure, and metonymy), and in terms of the significance resulting from the relationship of the word to the meaning, such as: (quality of the word, bad word, arbitrariness of the word, sweet meaning, poor meaning, honor of the meaning, absurd, colloquial and cold meaning, integrity of the word, and corruption. Pronunciation and meaning) and finally in terms of the pronunciation adding to or subtracting from the meaning: (such as exposition and explicitness such as lengthening, elongation, taђjil, indentation, completion) and etc. This study will clarify the concept of critical terminology that resulted from their precise understanding of the meaning of the term by comparing the opinions of syntacticians among themselves, according to chronology across the first five centuries of the AH, citing the opinions of non-grammar critics and comparing them with their opinions, and showing the aspects of syntacticians superiority over others in accurately understanding the meaning of the term.