Argument is War Metaphor in the Qur’ān

• Main Authors: Sardaraz, Khan, Roslan, Ali
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: School of Social Sciences & humanities,UMT 2020
• Subjects: BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc; P Philology. Linguistics; PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/30460/1/Argument%20is%20War%20Metaphor%20in%20the%20Qur%E2%80%99%C4%81n_%20%28JITC%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/30460/; https://journals.umt.edu.pk/index.php/JITC/article/view/641

This paper investigates the experiential basis of the concept of ‘argument’ in the language of the Holy Qur’ān in order to explore the cross-era dimensions of war as the source domain for argument. Conceptual metaphor approach has been applied to the data collected from the Holy Qur’ān through the t...