The analysis of Koranic discourse from the perspective of textual linguistics

Abstract

Discourse, J. M. ADAM states, is an utterance that can certainly be characterized by textual properties, but above all as an act of discourse performed in a situation (participants, institution, place, time). The text, on the other hand, is an abstract object resulting from the subtraction of the context operated on the concrete object (speech). We notice here that the notion of discourse is contextualized: one cannot attribute meaning to discourse out of context. The same utterance pronounced in two different places can correspond to two distinct places. This relatively recent use of expressions such as "text linguistics", "textual linguistics" and more generally the recognition of the text linguistically relevant unit, has given the discourse label a broad and particular meaning. This linguistics of the text  as a which has come to appropriate the data of the previous theories of  transphrastic grammar, structural linguistics and stylistics beyond its own new contributions, is a theory of the co(n)textual production of meaning which is necessary to base on the analysis of concrete texts.