Qur'ānic Rhetorical Questions: Their Identification and Communicative Functions
This article presents a grammatical framework to evaluate rhetorical questions in the Qur'ān. It is shown that the context of a rhetorical question implies its own answer, which is precisely what prevents the addressee from taking the question literally. Rhetorical questions are also treated as...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Peeters
2021
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Semitica
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Pages: 377-408 |
RelBib Classification: | BJ Islam |
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