Studying Similarities between Ilmu ma’ani and Halliday’s Systematic Functional Grammar (SFG) Relying upon Verses from the Holy Quran

Ilmu ma’ani, as one of the main branches of Islamic rhetoric, has a wide scale relation with linguistics and theories on modern literary criticism and its branches. M. A. Halliday is one of the renowned researchers of the school of linguistics in Britain whose systematic functional grammar (SFG) has many similarities with Persian grammar discussions of statement(Xabar) , Insha or composition , subject , predicate , connotative meaning , … of Ilmu ma’ani. This paper intends to use the Holy Quran verses - to which all technics of eloquence including conjugation and syntax, meaning, rhetoric, etc. shall be attributed – to study and introduce similarities and overlays between Ilmu ma’ani and Halliday’s systematic functional grammar.

کلیدواژه ها:

Holy Quran ، rhetoric ، Ilmu ma ani ، Linguistics Criticism ، Syntax ، Halliday’s systematic functional grammar