Intonation and its Effect on Expressing the Meaning in Grammatical Structures in the Sermons of Nahj Al-Balagha
Intonation and its Effect on Expressing the Meaning in Grammatical Structures in the Sermons of Nahj Al-Balagha

Summary/Abstract: Speech does not proceed at a single vocal pace, but its tone rises, falls, and levels out, and the pitch of the voice can play an important role in directing the meaning within the grammatical styles, so many syntactic structures such as interrogation, exclamation , calling, command, and warning are understood through the tone, and the function of intonation does not stop at understanding some grammatical structures, but rather goes beyond that to replace the tone with the tool, as we find in some structures such as the condition , exclamation, and question. Our research studies the effect of intonation within the grammatical structures, and also attempts to prove the strong connection between the vocal tone and what follows it in directing the meaning, through selected models from the sermons of Nahj alBalagha.

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