Direct Speech in the Qur’anic Narratives of the Ulul Azmi Prophets: A Corpus-Based Analysis of Functional Distribution
This study analysed 645 khithābī (dialogic) verses drawn from 1,412 narrative verses concerning Nuh, Ibrahim, Musa, Isa, and Muhammad using a corpus-based discourse-analytic design and Roman Jakobson’s six language functions. The corpus-based approach enabled cross-prophetic patterns to be traced and compared rather th...