Document Type : Research paper

Author

• valiollah Hasoomi

faculty member

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the semantic network of the past tense in the Qur'an. The use of this tense in the Qur'an is sometimes related to concepts that are based on intellectual, narrative, and customary evidence, so it is necessary to conduct this research. For this purpose, by relying on the theories of the field of cognitive semantics in the field of schema, metaphor and conceptual permission, and with the descriptive-analytical method, this quality of use is explained. The findings show that the past tense in the Qur'an sometimes conveys transtemporal concepts by changing the paradigmatic schema and removing the element of time, and metaphorically, it enters new conceptual fields. And it encodes concepts such as certainty, impossibility of realization, probability and distance from reality. Also, by highlighting the hidden components in the exemplar schema, it conveys concepts such as priority, speed, etc. in a virtual form. As a result, the past tense in the Qur'an can be considered a multi-meaning category. He knew that under the influence of context, he conceptualizes a network of meanings.

Keywords

• Past tense
• exemplary meaning
• conceptual metaphor
• metonymy
• semantic network

Main Subjects

• Linguistic research in Arabic