Mechanisms of Studying Meaning Between Ancient Arabic Studies and Modern Western Theory –Models–

Abstract

إليك ترجمة النص إلى الإنجليزية في سطر واحد:

Western linguists examined numerous linguistic, rhetorical, and semantic issues considered core to ancient Arabic studies in subject and approach, providing the theorization and foundational frameworks for linguistic studies, while ancient Arabic works contained pioneering insights that Western scholars recognized as the roots of modern studies in our heritage; given the importance of meaning as the pivot of communication and speech, Western theories varied in their mechanisms and approaches, from Bloomfield’s behavioral focus to John Locke’s emphasis on mental concepts and ideas, and a close examination of ancient Arabic heritage reveals pioneering contributions such as Ibn Jinni's "Al-Khasa'is" regarding positional and technical significance and the phonetic-semantic correspondence of words, and Al-Jahiz's "Five Stations" in "Al-Bayan wa al-Tabyin," noting differing perspectives like De Saussure's arbitrary nature of the linguistic sign, all while seeking to answer: what mechanisms did Arab and Western scholars adopt toward meaning, and did the Arabs follow the same path as the West or were they guided by their own cultural and religious references?