A Stylistic Study of the Vocative in Relation to its Structure and Meaning: The Holy Quran as a Model

Abstract

The vocative style - as a constructional style - is one of the most widely used sections of grammar in the Arabic language, Therefore, it is considered a basic form of speech, which is intended - in the origin of its meaning - to alert the caller, with the intention of conveying to him a specific speech, in which the majority is to request something, or refrain from something, so the caller remains amazed at what is being asked of him..

     Despite the importance of the vocative style, the grammarians, through their analysis of its two sentences, were mostly concerned with one question: Is the vocative being in the accusative, so what is the accusative factor in it? Is it the vocative tool itself? Or is it on behalf of the verb (to call?)

    Therefore, in this research, we will try to infer that the context of the call consists of two sentences: the first: the call sentence (the call tool + the caller), and the second: the response sentence to the call, replacing it with two sentences: the condition, and the oath..., provided that the call sentence has no place. Of the parsing, it is primary or resuming, or it has a position, such as being the subject sentence of the saying according to the context, and the sentence that follows the vocative sentence - which we call the sentence (answer to the call) - is in the position of the accusative object, either similar to the object sentence of the verb to say, or the direct object. The second is for the verb (he asked), as we say: I asked the student: Have you prepared the lesson?, and thus it does not deviate from being a requesting constructional method, all through the presentation and analysis of the patterns of the two call sentences in a syntactic-semantic analysis, applying that to what is mentioned in the verses of the Holy Qur’an.