مقاربة تلفّظية للنفي في العربية الفصحى

Mohamed-Habib Kahlaoui

doi:10.35516/hum.v52i3.3161

Authors

Mohamed-Habib Kahlaoui English Department, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8903-7157

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35516/hum.v52i3.3161

Keywords:

phase-1/phase-2 negators, metalinguistic status, modal negator, aspectual negator, predicative relation, intervenient/detached strategy

Abstract

Objectives: The study aims to revisit negation in Standard Arabic (SA) from an Enunciative perspective that takes into consideration the role of the speaker/writer and contextual factors in the production and reception of negative utterances. It is built on the assumption that the speaker's processing strategy in discourse is the key to understanding the logic of negating in SA.

Methods: By showing that normative and descriptive approaches are heavily handicapped by direct assignment of chronological meaning to meaningless negators, the study offers a corpus-based utterer-centered approach for a systematic analysis of negation contrasted with affirmation, its polar counterpart.

Results: In spite of its metalinguistic richness, negation in Arabic has not triggered any significant research that accounts for the working of the six formal negators lam, leisa, maa, laa, lan and lammaa. Rather, traditional approaches still dominate the grammatical landscape and continue to exercise unquestioned authority in pedagogical grammar. Findings suggest that negators fall into two categories: phase1 negators, codifying a speaker-detached strategy, and phase 2 negators which have a metalinguistic status and work to codify a modalising speaker-intervenient strategy in discourse.

Conclusion: The findings of may be used in updating a prevailing pedagogical grammar of Arabic dating back to many centuries ago and still adhering to prescriptivism, taxonomy, assignment of meaning to meaningless discourse markers and insensitivity to the context. They may also shed light on the working of several under-researched operations in Arabic grammar, such as ‘modality’ and ‘aspect’ which remain highly problematic to students of Arabic and translation.

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