حجاجية الاستعارة في الحديث النبوي الشريف

Abstract EN

Rhetoric has been at the core of interest of both ancient and modern scholars, especially metaphor that has drawn the interest of writers, poets, critics and even philosophers, but some of them considered it as merely a tool of extra gratification, and not as an effective means of education.

Moreover, they considered it as a means of misleading and suspicion.

However, the linguistic reality of the human use has proven that the discursive practice is the only parameter to define the utility or the inutility of metaphor.

Thus, we must be aware of the effects of its misuse or even its abuse.

Therefore, we aim in this paper at providing a study of the argumentative and persuasive use of metaphor, relaying on the Prophet's Hadiths, which are full of argumentation in matters of dogma, moralities in order to show the functioning of metaphor.

Prophet's Hadiths reveal by their metaphorical uses an authentic argumentative and persuasive use of metaphor, mainly in dialoguing with the addressee's thought and attracting his attention by insinuations behind the metaphorical images, and by guiding his thought from the metaphor to the reality and from the concrete meaning to the original one, leading him to create a realistic structure of the metaphorical image.

Metaphor has achieved several high didactic objectives along with its enjoining and argumentative functions.