Exclamation in English and Arabic: a contrastive Study dr. Nadia Amin Hasan
Some statements when uttered with emphasis
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| Some statements when uttered with emphasis are also exclamatory: the use of some emphatic
particles like ?inna and the lam. As in the following examples: Inna la-dal-uun (Qur'an: 68-26) Surely we are indeed erring people! (Ghali, 2008: 565) Inna la-mudrak-uun (Qur'an: 26- 61) Surely we are indeed overtaken! (Ghali, 2008: 370) Same as English, emphasis in Arabic is also detected by repetition. In the following the use of repetitive interjections is exclamatory: Hayhata hayhata lima tw ؟aduun (Qur'an :23- 63) Away, away with whatever you are promised! (Ghali, 2008: 344) Sentences with repetitive structure are emphatic and emotive; consequently they are exclamatory. International journal of Science Commerce and Humanities Volume No 2 No 2 February 2014 187 But, unlike English, to indicate that a particular sense or action lies at the very end of a scale, the absolute object of the verb is used undefined as in: ?za rujj-at el-?ard rajja wa bussa-t-i el-jebal-u bassa (Qur'an : 56: 4-5) When the earth will be convulsed with a (severe) convulsion and the mountains crumbled with a violent crumbling (Ghali, 2008: 534) Wright (1964: 54-vol. II) states that 'it is used for strengthening or magnifying, i.e. to add greater force to the verb. He adds (ibid: 55) 'still for greater emphasis the masdar may be repeated'. We have in the Qur'an: ?eza dukk-at el -?ardu dakkan dakka (Qur'an: 89- 21) When the earth is pounded (into powder) pounding, pounding (Ghali, 2008: 593) The destruction of the earth on the Day of Judgement is beyond imagination and description. It is something unprecedented and inexperienced before. Also for expressing something lying at the extreme end of a scale 'the masdar accompanied by a suffix referring to the logical subject' is used as in: Junn-a jun-uun-uh (ibid) He reached the highest degree of madness! As stated above, if the proposition in an expressive/emotional utterance indicates a high or extreme position on a semantic scale, and a deviation from a norm, without explicitly stating this deviation, this expressive/emotional utterance is an exclamative. (Biejir, 2002: 17) 6- tải về 250.88 Kb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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