A Stylistic Analysis of Introductions of Imam Al-Kadhim's Supplications

Abstract

The goal of any stylistic analysis is to identify the creative ideas that underlie a writer's language choice. Furthermore, every writer—and thus every text—has distinctive characteristics that set them apart from one another. Short and Leech (2007), p. 60. Therefore, the goal of this work is to identify the stylistic elements of the introductions to Imam Al-Kadhim's prayers. More specifically, it seeks to clarify the stylistic development of the texts of the aforementioned genre. Therefore, it postulated that the most common stylistic elements in Imam Al-Kadhim's prayers are the frequent use of the lexical category of nouns and the grammatical category of relative clauses, as well as the figure of speech of repetition and the use of pronouns as a unifying device. In order to accomplish the goal of this study and test its hypothesis, five of Imam Al-Kadhim's supplications have been selected for stylistic analysis using the Leech and Short model (2007: 60-4). Additionally, a statistical method in the form of a percentage equation has been used to illustrate the results of the analysis of the data under consideration, and the analysis's findings confirm the hypothesis mentioned above.