نظرية المعنى في الفكر النقدي عند العرب من الممارسة إلى التنظير

Abstract

This study attempts to dig into around the epistemological and thought origins of the theory of meaning in the Arabic critical thought so as to explore the nature of its methodological structures and to determine the great sources from which it has drawn its theoretical framework ,scientific maxims ,and general laws.The study aims at the presentation of a longitudinal scientific assessment of the important developments of this theory and the determination of its different directions of its impact on different sciences.Moreover,it seeks to spot some epistemological patterns it has chiseled in its path towards maturation and perfection.The impressions of this theory first appeared in language science and syntax being « functional » sciences.Then, i twas extended to theology ,rhetoric and literary criticism in patterns and levels that are convergent in origins and divergent in branches.The present study has revealed the existence of two priciple eras in the history of the theory of meaning : the first one represents the oral tradition in the practice of both science and critism, which represents the first nesting evironment in which the big maxims and great ideas of these theories have been found,and the second one represents the era of critical and scientific theorization the momentum of which has increased since the writing phase.Since the era in which arabic thought has entered into writing consciousness , sifting operations of the big maxims and general ideas have been conducted ,where scientific and critical circles got involved since the second century of islamic history in transforming these ideas and maxims into theoretical concepts credited with epistemological competence and interpretative potential of the phenomena and the themes falling withing its scope be it through the laws generating and creating meaning or through the tools of its reading,interpretation,and exegeses .These