IMPLICIT MEANING OF رفع شأن المرأة IN ARABIC PROPHETIC HADITHS

Abstract

Implicitness is one of the pragmatic concepts that is employed to achieve certain functions and specific goals through conversation. This paper is intended to investigate implicitness in religious texts focusing on the tools that the speaker utilizes to indicate implicit meaning via Veurchueren’s model (1999). Vidal’s (2016) model is also adopted to analyze twenty Arabic religious texts about  رفع شأن المرأة in Prophetic Hadiths showing the accountings and the reasons that make the speaker use implicitness. The collected data is qualitatively analyzed through subjective identification and explanation, and then quantitatively through percentages and frequencies clarified in tables. This paper reveals that implicitness is accounted for via two important strategies: flouting Grice’s maxims and speaker’s intention, as well the tendency to indicate Politeness, Advertising, Humor and Manipulation are the main reasons for implicitness in these Hadiths.