The rhetorical orientation of the phenomenon of contextual syntactic deviation in Surat Al-Baqarah

Abstract

The phenomenon of contextual syntactic deviation has attracted a great deal of attention from linguists and rhetoricians. It is a linguistic phenomenon associated with the change of meaning that occurs when the established pattern in the grammatical rules is deviated from. In other words, it refers to a displacement or change in the linguistic structure or sentence structure. This deviation is justified by the context, and it is an intentional deviation that aims to give the literary text - of all its types - new meanings that are rhetorically directed to cause a psychological impact on the recipient. This phenomenon is one of the common phenomena in many languages, including the Arabic language. It can manifest in any type of words, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and others. The degree of contextual syntactic deviation is determined by the context of speech and the grammatical relationships between the words in the sentence. This deviation can occur due to certain grammatical factors such as fronting and postposing, ellipsis, apostrophe, and parenthesis.

Since the Qur'anic text represents the ideal model of the literary text in eloquence and rhetoric, with its high rhetorical value, this research seeks to discuss this phenomenon in it, specifically in surat al-baqarah, through the previous grammatical factors, and how they were rhetorically directed to highlight the beauty of the Qur'anic text.