الخلاصة:
The title of the research is (the phenomenon of semantic change of
words in the Quranic context, rhetorical study.)
this thesis is organized as follows; an introduction and four
chapters; The first chapter is a theoretical part, we explained the
terms; the meaning and these types, semantics, then outlined the
causes of semantic changes, phenomena of change and their
consequences. Ullmann identifies six classes of causes that may
cause semantic change ; linguistic causes, historical, social,
psychological, foreign influence and the need for a new name. five
phenomena of change have been distinguished; The main rhetorical
figures that act in the process of semantic change are; metaphor,
metonymy synecdoche, the processes of generalization and
specialization, as well as the methods of melioration and worsening.
The second chapter was sacred to discuss the concept context in
ancient Arabic heritage, rhetoricians, originators and explainers of
the Koran. They showed two types of contexts; the verbal context
and the context of situation. J.FIRHT in modern linguistics
envisages the problem of meaning in a context situation gives.
According to him the meaning is contextualization. but what must
finally mention is that some critics do not lack to attract attention to
the lack of context for accuracy, meaning, among firth and in the
heritage.
The third chapter Practical study proposes a rhetorical approach
to semantic change. from this analysis, the general sense is defined
depicted in the Quranic context as meaning a change that turns a
word its own meaning. we distinguish different species of tropes,
based on the nature of the semantic relations between the meaning of
the word has its meaning figuratively of borrowing, we retained the major categories rhetoricians have emerged from the study of
tropological figures; (Metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche).
The fourth chapter examines the denotative extension in the
Quranic context , we have six rhetorical causes that produce
extension of meaning ; hysteron-proteron, omission , generalize the
information on a particular topic ,the phrase that expresses two
possible forms; declarative and performative, the expression which
carries two figurative meanings , implication , and finaly the usage of
word in tow sens.
