The speech act of threatening in English and Arabic with reference to the Glorious Qur'an

Abstract AR

This study (The Speech Act of Threatening in English and Arabic with Reference to the Glorious Qur'an) tries to answer the following questions: What are the kinds of the speech act of threatening in English?, What are the felicity conditions of this act?, How do Arab linguists and rhetoricians deal with such act?, and in which way threat in the Glorious Qur'an is characterized in terms of the Speech Act Theory? The following hypotheses have been adopted: 1.

The speech act of threatening in English is often expressed implicitly rather than explicitly.

2.

Frightening and scaring can be considered as implicit forms of threat in Arabic.

3.

Most of the Qur'anic texts of threatening are expressed implicitly.

4.

The speech act of threatening in the Glories Quran is often expressed in the Perfect tense.

The procedure to be followed is: 1.

Presenting a theoretical account about the speech act of threatening in English and Arabic.

2.

Analyzing some representative Quranic texts that include threatening.

The study has reached to some theoretical and practical findings that verify its hypotheses.

Finally, it is hoped that the present study will be significant to different fields