Advice Discourse in the Ta'iyyah of Abu Ishaq al Ilbiri : A Linguistic study

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Lecturer of Linguistics- Department of Arabic Language Faculty of Al-Alsun - Ain Shams University

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Advice is a word that generally expresses the good will for whoever advised, and it cannot be fully explained in one word. The discourse of advice is the one in which rhetorical devices are used to encourage a moral reform progression, or to hail a distinctive moral act based on experience or belief or mutual hope.
In this regard, The Andalusian environment is known to be an environment of science, literature and morals, and its scientists have always enjoyed a prestigious status. Therefore, urging people to seek knowledge and strive for it was the loftiest advice a mentor could give to a protégée or a father to his son. This is what Abu Ishaq al-Ilbiri (d. 459 AH) did since he wrote his well-known Ta'iyyah poem "A Mentor’s Will", in which he urges his son to seek knowledge, act accordingly, and adopt good morals.
The study adopts various linguistic approaches including: discourse analysis, argumentation, and pragmatics.  It seeks to reveal whatever aspects found in the advice discourse. Discourse analysis clearly indicates the nature of the sender-recipient relationship. Argumentation reveals the persuasion means of the recipients in this type of discourse, while pragmatics is concerned with studying the intended meaning of the speaker or the writer and its interpretation by the listener or the reader.

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Journal of Qena Faculty of Arts
Volume 32, Issue 60
July (languages)
July 2023
Pages 13-62

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