Investigating Gender-Based Clusters in the Holy Qur’an: A Corpus-Based Linguistic Analysis

نوع المستند : العلوم الانسانیة الأدبیة واللغات

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قسم اللغات كلية اللغة والاعلام بالأكاديمية العربية للعلوم والتكنولوجيا والنقل البحرى الاسكندرية مصر

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As a multi-layered analysis, the present study aims not only to investigate how meaning is created in the Holy Qur’an, but also to examine the types of clusters and processes in the selected texts. It also aims to compare between the Arabic version of the Holy Qur’an to its English version . The study adopts a triangulation of approaches and methods of analysis; namely, the corpus-based approach, the Transitivity theory in Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), and Sara Mills’ framework of Feminist Linguistics, which enable the researcher to investigate the occurrence and frequency of some gender-based linguistic elements. This would create a strong impact on the reading and interpretation of the texts of the study. From the linguistic perspective, the study not only provides a qualitative analysis of the linguistic elements of the texts, but also follows a quantitative approach in order to seek the accuracy of the results by means of a corpus linguistic tool which is a software concordance programme called AntConc (version 4.1.4, 2022). Results indicated that there was a preponderant use of male-based clusters in comparison to the female-based ones. Moreover, material transitivity processes were found to be the most frequently used types of processes in the texts. By means of a t-test, it was concluded that there was no significant difference between the frequency rate of the male-based clusters in comparison to the female-based ones, confirming their equal distribution in the texts.

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