Muqāraba dilāliyya fī maˁānī l-istifhām al-balāġiyya [“A semantic approach to the rhetorical meanings of question style”]

Abstract

 “A semantic approach to the rethorical meanings of question style”. This paper deals with the question style and his relationship whit the rhetorical meanings and the movement from one semantic field to another. We show, also, that these meanings are interrelated and are difficult to separate, as well as to define the predominant meaning. These meanings are generated from the nucleus meaning in a hierarchy and sequenced basis which allows for some degree of intersection and some overlapping of the semantic fields, depending on the nature of the nucleus meaning in the structure. Based on the analysis of some of the question words, we show the phonologic features compatibility of these question words and their rhetorical meanings. We conclude that the alternation of this interrogative structure between these meanings relays on semantic properties and phonologic features.