Phonological stylistics - an applied study in Al-Shanfara's Lamiyat Al-Arab

Abstract

The literary text has linguistic levels that interact with each other to give us the final form of the text.Among these levels is the audio level. This study is concerned with the phonetic level and its harmony with those morphological, syntactic, prosodic, and rhetorical levels within a pre-Islamic poetic text, Al-Shanfara’s “Lamiyyat al-Arab,” answering a fundamental question: What are the phonetic characteristics of “ilamiyah”?What is the functional and aesthetic dimension of these vocal rhythms?What are its sources?Did it form a distinctive style? Finally, let us conclude that Al-Shanfara’s Lamiyat Al-Arab is a fertile text in which voices appear in their purest form, appropriate to the general content of the text.The voices in the poem depicted a sophisticated verbal artistic decoration, and a musical symphony whose rhythms reflect rebellion, suffering, patience, self-pride, pride, and courage, rhythms performed by Al-Shanfara with words, sounds, prosodic rhythm, and suggestive images.