LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:5 May 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Aspects of Convergence between Abdul-Qaher Al-Jurjani's Theory of Al-Nadhm and Some Principles of
the London School of Linguistics

Dr. Amer Fael Belhaf
Dr. Nasser Omer Mubarak Al-Tamimi
Dr. Rais Ahmed Attamimi
David Rock

Abstract

This study examines a number of aspects of convergence between Abdul-Qaher Al- Jurjani’s theory of Al-Nadhm and some of the principles upon which the London School of Linguistics is based. The study is divided into three sections. The first section deals with meanings of grammar and systemic grammar. An explanation of the linguistic context is then given in the second section. Finally, the third section presents and discusses the concept of collocation. The study identifies eleven aspects of convergence between the two schools. This similarity is attributed to chance, as Abdul-Qaher Al-Jurjani on the one hand and Firth and his fellows on the other hand were working in discrete areas of linguistic analysis. Chance is not uncommon in this field, as researchers working independently shed light on different aspects of the humanitarian, social and psychological phenomenon, i.e. language.

Introduction

Language is described as a common, human, and a social phenomenon (Sapir, 1921). It is one of the most important and characteristic forms of human behavior, a container of thinking, a criterion of the civilization level and progress that nations have reached and a record of the level to which education and advancement have attained (ibid). For these reasons, researchers since ancient times have embarked upon studying language, codified its rules and designed curricula for its transmission. They have also divided it into many branches such as syntax, criticism and rhetoric.

Languages have diversified greatly since ancient times, and so have the methods and techniques applied to its study. However despite the variety of approaches to studying languages (for example historical, descriptive, comparative and integrative) there is something in common between languages. Consequently, similarities and correspondences in the ways in which language is theorized can be observed in Eastern and Western approaches. These correspondences could be a result of the influence of one ‘school’ on the other, but could also be the result of independent research and theorizing. This study then attempts to investigate a number of convergences between the views of Abdul-Qaher and those of London school of linguistics to affirm the notion that ''language is a common human phenomenon" (Sapir, 1921).

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Dr. Amer Fael M. Belhaf (Ph.D.)
Assistant Professor
University of Najran
Saudi Arabia
amer.fael@yahoo.com

Dr. Nasser Omer M. Al-Tamimi (Ph.D.)
Assistant Professor
Hadhramout University of Science and Technology
Yemen
tnotamimi@yahoo.com

Dr. Rais Ahmed Attamimi (Ph.D.)
Assistant Professor
Salalah College of Technology
Sultanate Oman
Rais_attamimi@yahoo.com

David Rock (M.A)
Lecturer
Salalah College of Technology
Sultanate Oman
yallic@yahoo.com
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