جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « presupposition » در نشریات گروه « علوم قرآن و حدیث »

Presupposition is a linguistic tool used in pragmatics or applied semantics to express and deduce indirect concepts from a text or speech. Pragmatics has been widely used in recent decades to interpret and explain linguistic and non-linguistic signs and to explain the ultimate purpose of the sign producer. Since in the interpretation of the Holy Quran, the commentator deals with the "text" and one of his purposes is to explain the ultimate intention of God, this knowledge and its components can be very effective and efficient in Quranic exegesis. In this article, after briefly introducing the knowledge of pragmatics and explaining the presupposition that demonstrates the real intention of the speaker in the form of the third textural layer, the role of this component in interpreting the selected verses is shown. Based on the findings of this study, Presupposition in the interpretation of the Qur'an leads to the discovery of indirect meanings and deeper layers of Qur'anic verses. Although the commentators of the Qur'an have traditionally paid attention to this issue, the use of segmentation, breadth of discussion, and systematization in pragmatics can lead to the discovery of new concepts.

Muslim exegetes have long sought to discover the wise secrets, rhetorical points, and explicit or implicit messages embedded in the expressions and structures of the Quranic text. In addition to the common methods of using lexicological approaches, Arabic morphology and syntax, ancient Arabic poetry or narrating the exegetical sayings from the prophet''s Companions to literally interpret explicit meanings of Quranic words, they sometimes appealed to intellectual methods in order to extract implicit and implied meanings hidden in some Quranic verses. In modern times, most of these technics and methods have been classified and introduced in various branches of linguistics. One of the relatively new branches of linguistics which concerns inferring implied, and intended meanings out of the utterances is pragmatics. The present study aims at conducting a comparison between the newly developed elements of pragmatics and some of the medieval Quranic commentaries which applied those elements. In this regard, three much discussed elements of presupposition, entailment and conventional implicature have been selected and then a number of old Quranic exegetes in which these three elements have been indirectly used are introduced. The study indicates that Muslim commentators of the medieval era were aware of these technics and extensively used them in their works.