Discourse in the Story of Yusuf, Peace be upon him, Between the Necessity of Explicitly and the Need to Implicature

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Abstract : This study is concerned with searching for discourse strategies in Qur’anic stories - specifically in the story of Joseph, peace be upon him - based on the form of discourse that produces two connotations, an apparent connotation and an implicit connotation. The Qur’anic discourse, in its expression of connotation, takes two paths: the path of declaration, which results in declarative speech that carries the meaning in the apparent meaning of the word. The one who communicates the purposes of the addressee in a direct manner, and the insinuating approach produces the insinuating speech in which the meaning is hidden behind the words and the purposes are not reached except through the use of the mind. This study seeks to identify the paths taken by the dialogue in the story, then look at the positions and reasons that obligated the addressees to adopt the declarative strategy in creating the discourse and the mechanisms that reveal this. It then examines the positions and reasons that necessitated the use of the allusive strategy and the mechanisms that express the objectives of the allusive discourse