The Significance and Uses of Convergence

Abstract

Language, in its highest function, is a means of achieving communication and understanding between individuals and expressing themselves. Studies and research on language have addressed various aspects, from its eloquence to its diverse sciences and all its levels—phonetic, morphological, syntactic, lexical, and semantic. All these studies aim to identify the changes language has undergone and to determine its proximity to eloquence, given its status as the language of the Holy Quran, the Prophetic Hadith, and the Arab heritage. Change in language is governed by laws and rules that regulate its occurrence, determine its paths, and reveal its dimensions and degrees of impact. It proceeds slowly in phonetics, morphology, and syntax, and rapidly at the levels of vocabulary and semantics.

As for its formal definition, Emile defined it as: the language of the Holy Quran and the entirety of the Arab heritage, which is used today in official transactions, in the writing of poetry and prose, and in intellectual production in general. Not far from this definition, Mustafa Harakat says: The academic system's domain is the written word, and its manifestations are in journalism and books of all kinds and levels, from cookbooks to novels and scientific texts.