Jabr Dwihi Alfaham
Assistant professor of Literature. and Criticism, College of Education, Majmaah University, Almajmaah, Saudi Arabia.
Issue: 35 | Pages: 30-39 | June 2025 | https://doi.org/10.54940/ll44360228 | PDF
Received:-15/03/2023 | Revised:-26/04/2023 | Accepted: 10/05/2023
Corresponding Author: [email protected]
Abstract
The research have made it clear that linguistic economy is a modern term, which means reducing the effort when using the language, while maintaining clarity and clarification, and the integrity of language rules and controls, and that some of the issues of this term were discussed by ancient Arabic scholars in sufficient detail without originating a term to describe it. It pointed out that the economy in the language is a standard that settles in the language at all levels after unanimous agreement on it by the majority, and the originator is not credited with its use as it made nothing but only used it. The economy is out of creativity, and it is an individual practice, by which the originator excels over the others, and only those who know the language and have special talents can originate it. Therefore, it gives the language a new phase that increases its life and dynamism. By applying on Tarfa bin Al-Abd’s Mu’allaqan it is revealed that in the use of pronouns, the originator is equal to anyone else. As for the deletion - especially the deletion of the described - the originator practiced it with creativity that distinguishes it from others. Likewise, the second model (the book of mediation between Al-Mutanabbi and his opponents) revealed how the creative originator can achieve the economy in a way that differs from others. The research concluded that most of the published studies have tackled the first type, while the second type still needs more studies.
Keywords
linguistic economy, the phenomenon of least effort, brevity.
How to Cite
Alfaham, J. Linguistic Economy between grammar and creativity, Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Language Sciences and Literature. 2025 June; (35): 30-39. https://doi.org/10.54940/ll44360228
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