نوع مقاله : مقاله علمی - پژوهشی
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عنوان مقاله English
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Applied linguistics, as an interdisciplinary field, investigates linguistic elements and textual structures in order to deepen understanding of meaning construction and to uncover implicit and context-dependent meanings. Within the Qur’anic worldview, humanity is inherently dialogic, as Almighty God consistently employs dialogue to communicate truths and human interests. Through prophetic interactions, dialogue is established as the most effective means of idea transmission, conflict resolution, and consensus building. Herbert Paul Grice, the analytic philosopher of language, reflects this dialogic orientation in his formulation of the Cooperative Principle governing conversation, speech acts, and implicature. For Grice, conversation is a purposeful, rational, and cooperative activity governed by four maxims: Quantity, Quality, Relation, and Manner. Contextually motivated and intentional flouting of these maxims gives rise to conversational implicatures. The present study adopts a descriptive-analytical approach to examine selected dialogues in Surah Hūd (ayahs 30–116) through the framework of Grice’s Cooperative Principle. The findings indicate frequent floutings of all four maxims across the analyzed ayahs. In Prophet Noah’s (AS) dialogues with his people, violations of the maxims of Manner, Relation, and Quantity occur at equal rates, whereas violations of the maxim of Quality are least frequent. These pragmatic deviations function not as communicative failures but as strategic rhetorical devices that activate the audience’s rational expectations, generate rich implicatures, reinforce monotheistic urgency, expose obstinacy, and emphasize divine justice. The study thus demonstrates that the Qur’anic discourse skillfully employs maxim flouting in alignment with universal pragmatic principles, affirming dialogue as the optimal medium for conveying transcendent truth.
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