Cohesion and Coherence in Prohetic Discourse: A Semantic Analysis Study in the Book “Riyadh Al-Salihin” as a model

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ABSTRACT

Text linguistics focuses on the study of language, specifically analysing texts as significant linguistic units, alongside examining other elements, with particular emphasis on textual coherence. The researcher decided to solve the problem; where the research questions are represented in defining text linguistics and its objectives, exploring cohesion and coherence concepts along with their methodologies, distinguishing between these concepts, assessing their impact on text consistency, analysing how specific tools contribute to maintaining consistency in the hadith of the Prophet in the book of Riyad as-Salihin, and evaluating the cohesion and coherence of the hadith within the text. This study used descriptive analytical and the semantic approach by collecting and analyzing data related to this study. This study reached important results, including: reference is considered one of the most important tools that prove the textual cohesion in the hadiths of Riyad as-Salihin and it appeared clearly in the hadith from the results of the analysis. Substitution and ellipsis are among the important tools of cohesion in the construction of the text, it has been found in the hadith and had an impact in understanding the prophetic text. Both past and modern scholars are also concerned with it and it had a great role in clarifying the meaning and resolve the confusion with regard to ambiguity in the texts especially when the word or sentence have more than one meaning. Besides, as-Siyaq can be found in the hadith and it has an impact on understanding the prophetic text. Other than that, at-Taghrid embodies the entire text unit and it applies to the hadiths in the book Riyad as-Salihin. Lastly is the Ijmal and Tafsil, al-Umum and al-Khusus tool also have been found in the hadiths analysed.