The Exclamation Style in Arabic: A Descriptive Statistical Study

Abstract

This research studied the exclamation technique in Arabic using the descriptive & statistical methodology to achieve  the following objectives: Rooting: identifying syntactic rules related to this style, by counting them in a sample of old syntactic resources; Pedagogical: identifying usage of syntactic rules in the Quran and the usage of the old poetic and prosaic texts and their equivalences in modern texts to identify the most used rules and then  conducting a balance between the outputs of the statistical study and the real status of a sample of Arabic teaching books, and common European framework of reference for languages; Historical evolutionary: monitoring the change occurred in the real usage made between the old texts and the modern ones. This study adopted the descriptive statistical methodology while describing the exclamation techniques used by the classic linguists as well as counting them in studied samples, and the study sought the assistance of other linguistic methodologies to analyze the outputs. This Study concluded that 9 patterns were only used out the 42 exclamation patterns in the selected fundamental syntactic books, and the most frequent was the first. Also, it showed that a discrepancy in the use of the exclamation patterns between the old and the modern texts, and the educational books presented the technique according to method of old linguists within the framework of the factor theory. The study suggests reconsidering the way it is presented, provided to special methods in Arabic according to its most frequent patterns of the outputs of the statistical study.