SOUND AND MEANING IN IBN JINNĪ'S AL-KHASĀʾIS: THE THEORY OF AL-ISHTIQĀQ AL-AKBAR COMPARED WITH MODERN PHONOSEMANTIC APPROACHES
International Conference on Humanities, Social and Education Sciences, New York, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 9 - 12 Nisan 2026, ss.1-26, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
- Basıldığı Şehir: New York
- Basıldığı Ülke: Amerika Birleşik Devletleri
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-26
- Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This study examines the relationship that Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002) established between sound and meaning in al-Khasāʾis, focusing on the theory he named al-ishtiqāq al-akbar, and compares it with the modern approaches that have developed since the early twentieth century under the headings of phonosemantics and sound symbolism. Ibn Jinnī turned the permutation procedure that al-Khalīl b. Ahmad had used for lexicographical arrangement in Kitāb al-ʿayn into a theory of meaning, arguing that the six permutations of a triliteral root may be gathered, through subtle interpretation, around a single core meaning. In the chapters on imsās al-alfāz ashbāh al-maʿānī, tasāqub al-alfāz and quwwat al-lafz he further sought a natural correspondence between the articulation and the features of a consonant and the event it denotes. These observations are set against Saussure’s principle of the arbitrariness of the sign and against the experimental and statistical findings of Sapir, Köhler, Ramachandran and Hubbard, Magnus, and Blasi and colleagues. The study concludes that Ibn Jinnī’s theory anticipates the modern notions of iconicity and systematicity, that it nevertheless remains inductive and interpretive in method, and that its evidential value rests on a deliberately non-universal framework.