Title : ( Empowering Women: A Multi-perspective Discourse Analysis of Women’s Dignity and Equality in Qur’an )
Authors: Vida Dehnad , Azar Hosseini Fatemi ,
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Abstract: According to Qur’an, God’s divine merit-demerit system never allows for any biased treatment towards men or women. Dignity instead is what God has granted on all children of Adam. The present article, hence, sought to trace back women’s dignity and equality to the discourse of Qur’an working on a sample of 11 Surahs. The discourse analysis was based on combinatory perspectives of text linguistics, pragmatics, and rhetoric. The results revealed that the most salient marked discoursal devices of women’s equality and dignity were the techniques such as parallelism, anaphoric repetitions, juxtaposition of the believers’ attributes, emphatic negative propositions. In addition, the sometimes situated hierarchical pattern of relationship between men and women were not indicative of any unfair evaluation of ei
Keywords
, Equality, Dignity, Proposition, Parallel, Qur’an, Rhetoric
@article{paperid:1058101,
author = {Dehnad, Vida and Hosseini Fatemi, Azar},
title = {Empowering Women: A Multi-perspective Discourse Analysis of Women’s Dignity and Equality in Qur’an},
journal = {International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation},
year = {2016},
volume = {2},
number = {4},
month = {July},
issn = {2472-1166},
pages = {33--42},
numpages = {9},
keywords = {Equality; Dignity; Proposition; Parallel; Qur’an; Rhetoric},
}
%0 Journal Article
%T Empowering Women: A Multi-perspective Discourse Analysis of Women’s Dignity and Equality in Qur’an
%A Dehnad, Vida
%A Hosseini Fatemi, Azar
%J International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation
%@ 2472-1166
%D 2016
