تفسير زبانشناختي سوره عصر

Linguistic Interpretation of Surat al-ʹAsr

The contemporary linguistic achievements have taken the literary interpretation of the Holy Qurʹan into a new stage. At present the Hallidayʹs systemic-functional theory has received attention by many linguists. This article aims at acquainting the interpreters and Qurʹan researchers with the new linguistic methodology in relation to understanding religious texts. Based on this theory and with a linguistic method, the writer has interpreted Surat al-ʹAsr and presented new points on the semantics of this sura. These points include: manʹs love relation to God and other human beings; the reflection of the world of the speaker, the listener, and the reader; the calculated priority and delay of the words; the peaks and valleys of the cadence of the words; mysterious bond between the old and the new datum; utilizing various types of cohesion and continuous relation of concepts and meanings.