Cognitive study of the radial network of the meanings of the spatial addition letters in the Holy Quran

Abstract

One of the most important linguistic topics that are studied on the basis of cognitive semantics is the radial network theory, which is one of the most important topics in cognitive linguistics. According to this theory, meaning has a central state from which other real or metaphorical meanings have evolved. This theory had a great influence on semantics. In this article, the effect of this theory on the letters of the Arabic spatial addition in the Holy Qur’an is studied. In describing these words, it is very important to study the engineering relationship between the movable element and the fixed element and the relationship between them. In the epistemological approach, the main claim is that there is a coherent and systematic relationship between the meanings of each suffix. In this approach, the meaning of the archetype is represented as schemas and other meanings are derived from it through mechanisms such as metaphor and metaphor. In this research, and by the descriptive analytical method, the meaning of the initial model for these letters was determined, which are spatial meanings, then we explained how to derive other expanded temporal and abstract meanings for the meaning of the initial form. Finally, we drew the radial semantic network for all the letters of addition and concluded that there are systematic relationships between the different meanings of all these letters.