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Faith and Punishment: Implicitness in English and Arabic Religious Texts

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  • Abbas Lutfi Hussien

    (Mustansiriyah University, College of Arts, Iraq)

  • Zainab Jalil Ibrahim Ali-Khan

    (Mustansiriyah University, College of Arts, Iraq)

Abstract

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.

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  • Abbas Lutfi Hussien & Zainab Jalil Ibrahim Ali-Khan, 2022. "Faith and Punishment: Implicitness in English and Arabic Religious Texts," International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, Al-Kindi Center for Research and Development, vol. 5(9), pages 131-142, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:alk:ijllt0:v:5:y:2022:i:9:id:4081
    DOI: 10.32996/ijllt.2022.5.9.13
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