Manifestations of Argumentative Reasoning and its Functions in the Short Closed Quranic Story The Story of the Prophet Solomon with the Queen of Sheba as a Model

Abstract

If the arguments from the linguistic perspective are a prominent feature in the language of natural discourse, then the nature of the inference in this discourse is represented in that it is an argumentative, illogical, demonstrative inference, and accordingly it adopts multiple rhetorical strategies and various stylistic techniques that represent manifestations of the formation of the argumentative structure of the arguments, and possesses the linguistic structure in which it is manifested. Manifestations of that inference is an argumentative function represented in directing the addressee to deduce a result appropriate to the intention of the speaker, and the research seeks in this regard to clarify the manifestations of argumentative inference in the story of the Prophet Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, and to clarify the argumentative functions that are involved in the structure of its words, and then reach the goals that it includes. Narrative discourse in the Holy Quran.