The Grammatical and Semantic Relationship between Introduction and Textual Structures Forming Surat As-Saffat: A Study in Light of the Textual Science

Abstract

The current study investigates the grammatical, rhetorical, and semantic relationship between the introduction of Surat As-Saffat and the textual structures forming the Surah. It assumes that the introduction verses are richly loaded with lexical and grammatical meanings. The title of the study, “Grammatical and Semantic Relationship between the Introduction of Surat As-Saffat and Its Textual Structures: A study in Light of the textual science,” seeks to answer the main question: (1) What are the grammatical and semantic relationship between the introduction verses of this Surah and its subsequent textual structures? This inquiry is further divided into key questions, such as: How are grammatical relationships manifested? (2) How are semantic cohesive relationships established? To answer these questions, the researcher adopted the textual methodology, which offers a theoretical framework for understanding the text as a cohesive grammatical and semantic unit, with an approach encompassing both theoretical and applied dimensions. The study reached several results, the most important of which were horizontal and vertical relationships, including repetition of grammatical style, news styles, and construction styles, in addition to frequent repetition of emphasis, forming a horizontal grammatical relationship noted by the researcher. As for semantic world and sentence structure, the text forms an interconnected semantic world through generative sentences rich in grammatical transformation; key transformational elements include the imperative, the interrogative, and emphasis, linking deep generative sentences with superficial transformational sentences.