Arabic and Western Linguistics: A Study on Mutual Influence

Abstract

In this study, we try to search for the extent to which Arab thought represents the categories of modern language sciences, most of which have been developed away from the Arabic language, and to search for the extent of its flexibility and voluntariness to apply this type of curriculum to it without leading to the production of an Arabic language from the language with which Arabs have dealt over centuries. I thought, to what extent were Arab linguists influenced by Western linguistic theories? The duality of vulnerability and influence constitutes a civilizational phenomenon that has marked the history of the concepts of sciences and crafts, and is between different cultures, nations, and historical episodes in varying proportions and in a value manner, and it takes patterns and multiple faces, confined between expansion and constructive systematic criticism.