A Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis of Surah Luqman

The careful selection and proper use of lexical elements is the distinguishing feature of the Holy Quran. These elements are classified as subsets of semiotics and each of them play their role within the context of a Surah and topics that it covers. For example In Luqman surah topics such as monotheism, polytheism, atheism, prayer and the Day of Resurrection are discussed by different methods such as interrogative, vocative, elimination, citation, repetition etc. In this article this surah is reviewed according to the artistic and stylistic linguistics method which are considered as subjects of linguistics. At first the semantic value and semiotic dimensions and the composition and expression as well as aesthetic value and the level of literary influence has been studied. Furthermore a literary style has been studied that despite violating the linguistic principles it has its own language coherence and grammatical syntax mechanism. The result of this study shows that the letters extensively fit with conceptual and diacritical context of the surah and demonstrates the audial value of this Quranic text.