Open AccessBal: from Disjunction to Argumentation
Author(s) -
Muhammad Saleh Al-Ghamdi Muhammad Saleh Al-Ghamdi
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
maǧalaẗ ǧameʼaẗ al-malīk abdul aziz. al-adab wa al-uʼlum al-īnsaniaẗ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1319-0989
DOI - 10.4197/art.25-1.5
Subject(s) - argumentation theory , conjunction (astronomy) , linguistics , scope (computer science) , structuring , arabic , function (biology) , computer science , outcome (game theory) , epistemology , natural language processing , mathematics , philosophy , political science , law , programming language , mathematical economics , physics , astronomy , evolutionary biology , biology
The Arabic conjunction bal(usually translated as even or rather in English), like its equivalent conjunction in other languages, is a vital connector which has been of great interest to researchers in different languages. Arabic scholars have for many centuries always defined it as a disjunctive conjunction which can also mean giving up or quitting. This study is an analysis of “bal” which attempts to move it from the category of disjunction and quitting to the broader scope of Argumentation. The term Argumentation in this study is used in linguistic sense proposed by French linguists Jead – Claude Anscombre and Oswald Ducrot in their Theory of Argumentation in language(TAL) Within this theoretical framework, argumentation is defined sa the act of targeting specific objectives. The function of connectors, based on this definition, is to achieve these objectives through structuring language in ways which lead the addressee to conclusions undeclared by the speaker even though they are the outcome of the lattr’s words.