A Study Of The Additive Conjunction In The Story Of The Prophet Moses (PBUH) In Taha Surah According To Halliday And Hassan’s Theory

Abstract

Cohesion is one of the most important issues raised by modern linguistics, and one of the most important issues that have received attention from Arab and Muslim scholars, and also preoccupied orientalists as well, even those of them who saw that the Qur’an is an incohesion and incoherent book and thus loses the most important textual foundations. From here this research came to reveal the miraculous cohesion in the Qur’an through two aspects: Theoretical and practical. Cohesion is called linguistics tools in one text, which is divided into two types: formal and semantic. The first one includes grammatical and lexical cohesion. These tools connect the sentences together in the text in terms of meaning and cause the cohesion between the elements of the text in order to differentiate them from the group of scattered sentences and phrases. Among the many linguists’ opinions, Halliday and Hassan presented several factors for the cohesion of the text, including grammatical and lexical factors. The grammatical factors themselves are divided into substitution, reference, ellipsis and conjunctions.

This article studies the conjunction that are divided into four branches: the additive, the causal, the inverse and the temporal, with an integrated approach, and then it applies the additive conjunction in the story of the Prophet Moses (PBUH) in Taha surah and analyzes it to study how this story is coherent according to the additive conjunction.

One of the most important findings of the research is that the additive conjunction is used more than other types, so it has an important role in the cohesion of the story, and “waw” is more frequent than other letters that represent this type of connection. This letter is used between sentences and words when there are similarities or contradictions between the two sides of the conjunction, and since the story of the Prophet Moses (PBUH)  narrates the conflict and struggle between right and wrong, so we can consider the content of this story as contrasts, which connects all this story in Taha surah.

Keywords: text cohesion, additive conjunction, the story of the Prophet Moses (PBUH) in Taha surah, Halliday and Hassan.