Pragmatic stylistics strategies in Al-Imam Mohammad Al-Baqir's (p.b.u.h.)‎ Will to Jabir Al-Jafi

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The research attempts to elucidate a framework for the relations between linguistic form and pragmatic interpretation from a stylistic point of view.

It draws on how the speaker's intentional style differs and how it helps the addressee to identify the idea behind it.

as a satisfactory explanation of pragmatic stylistics' is still fuzzy, the research aims at : providing my definition of pragmatic stylistics, investigating the pragmatic stylistics strategies in the data under scrutiny (and explaining how the style used adds to the intended meaning and how it is manifested in Al-Imam's (peace be upon him) will from a pragmatic perspective), figuring out how stylistics strategies have pragmatic orientation, tracing the criteria that are met to satisfy those pragmatic stylistics strategies and finally developing an analytical model and applying it on the data chosen.

this research gives credence to the fact that the value of the various linguistic features of language used in the data rest on the speaker's competency.

it also helps readers discern these features of language use from a stylistic approach.

moreover, the research helps the reader explore the variations that are possible in such discourse and delve into the pragmatic stylistics strategies that Al Imam Al-Baqir (peace be upon him) employs.

One of the conclusions is that though violating the known norms, the speaker's intended meaning remains the same but tactically and cogently enforced upon the hearing audience.