Discourse analysis of al- qasas sura

Abstract EN

This study is concerned in identifying the units that Al- Qasas Sura discourse consists of, determining how these units are related to each other and contribute to the whole, and discovering the overall structure of a discourse.

This is done by investigating the number of topics, stories, episodes, and events and how these units are interrelated, interwoven to make the discourse of Al-Qasas Sura organized, coherent and interpretable. Al-Qasas Sura has been analyzed according to the model of Van Dijk (1980).

This model stipulates that many discourse types have functional categories which are applied to the sequencing of information in discourse.

The first category is introduction ; it provides information about the background knowledge, time, place, major participants and topics of the text.

The second category is problem which includes a rising problem or events.

The third category is conclusion .

It contains the following kinds of information: closing, summaries, and conclusions. It was shown that ayas sequences have important discourse characteristics of their own, such as coherence, changes of topics, events and episodes.

These units organize the overall structure and the theme of what the text of the Sura globally means.

This revealed the importance of discourse analysis which emphasizes the context of the entire discourse. The study shows that each act has a particular function that complete the organization of Al- Qasas Sura text.

This means that monological and dialogical textual sequences are explained or defined at a pragmatic level.