المضامين غير المنطوقة عند المتنبي على وفق نظرية الاستلزام الحواري(دراسة تداولية)

Abstract

The present study aims to examine the implicit meanings in the poetry of Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi in light of the Conversational Implicature Theory established by the linguistic philosopher Herbert Paul Grice, which is based on the Cooperative Principle and its derived maxims that guide communication and determine speakers’ intentions. The study also seeks to uncover how al-Mutanabbi deliberately violates these maxims to generate implicit meanings that reflect his intellectual, psychological, and political positions, making his poetic text a discursive space that goes beyond the literal meaning to yield latent implications inferred from context and rhetorical cues.

This study adopts a descriptive-analytical approach to examine a selection of al-Mutanabbi’s poems, aiming to identify patterns of indirect speech acts and manifestations of conversational implicature, through an analysis of the linguistic and semantic structures that produce these meanings. The findings demonstrate al-Mutanabbi’s ability and skill in transforming language into a tool for persuasion, argumentation, and self-empowerment, as well as how his systematic flouting of the maxims of quantity, relation, and manner contributes to the discursive depth of his poetry, rendering the text open to interpretation and rich in suggestion and significance.

The significance of this study lies in its provision of a contemporary pragmatic reading of al-Mutanabbi’s poetry, which re-examines the communicative structure of his work and highlights his mastery in producing implicit meanings, within a modern theoretical framework that bridges classical Arabic poetic heritage with contemporary pragmatic and linguistic studies.