Faith and Punishment

Implicitness in English and Arabic Religious Texts

Bibliographic Data

ID22217799
AuthorsAbbas Lutfi Hussien (Mustansiriyah University), Zainab Jalil Ibrahim Ali-Khan Zainab Jalil Ibrahim Ali-Khan, Zainab Jalil Ibrahim Ali-Khan (Mustansiriyah University)
Year2022
Volume5
Issue9
Pages131-142
Publication date2022-09-29
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Linguistics Literature & Translation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2617-0299 • E-ISSN: 2708-0099
PublisherAl-Kindi Center for Research and Development (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.9.13
OpenAlexW4297997727
LanguageEN
References cited5

Implicitness plays a distinctive role in communicating ideas and emotions as well as it functions to be economical in conveying what the speaker intends to say. This paper is intended to investigate implicitness in religious texts focusing on the reasons that lead the speaker to utilize implicit meaning. Vidal’s (2016) model is adopted to analyze twenty religious texts about faith and punishment in English compared with the other twenty Prophetic Hadiths in Arabic sharing the same two themes. The collected data is qualitatively analyzed through subjective identification and explanation of religious texts, then directed to present them quantitatively through percentages clarified in tables. This paper arrives at the conclusion that implicitness is accounted for via two important strategies: flouting Grice’s maxims and speaker’s intention, as well as the tendency to indicate politeness, advertising, humor, and manipulation, are the main reasons for implicitness in these religious texts

Arabic · Argumentation theory · Epistemology · Faith · Grice · Linguistics · Politeness · Pragmatics · Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism

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