The Deep Pragmatic Level in Abdulrazak Alghaliby’s Critical Theory

Abstract

Life is still moving at an accelerated pace in all social, political and literary fields, and the movement of development does not stop at a certain limit, just as it does not wait for someone to stop, even if it is for a reason or an emergency and the like. Modernity in all aspects of life, and this is what we see in Western Societies and the emergence of several schools of criticism and literature, which is the topic that pertains to our research. The competition of that school, and an example of that, is the emergence of the Structuralism School, Deconstructionism School, and Formalism School, leading to the Arabic Pragmatic Theory, which is the focus of our study. This development will not come only by coincidence, but rather it came as a result of several factors and reasons that led to its occurrence. The language and its sciences had their share of this development. The sciences of rhetoric, as well as criticism and its schools, developed until they reached Postmodernity. Arabic Pragmatic Theory(CPAA) is one of these modern literary and critical schools. In its foundations and rules are based on several important pillars, the most important of which is implicature, significance, and the signified aspect. Although sometimes the significance is absent, but the one who predicts it is the signified aspect, as well as it adopted Discourse in language and Perception that pours into the essence of the Concept, and (CPAA) as a scientific theory that took Ethics as an essential aspect in dealing with the Literary Text, whether poetry or narrative, and its difference from other critical theories is that , its reliance on the linguistic vocabulary and the connotations it carries in order that it may give the text strength and Aesthetics in terms of construction and Displacement, so as to provide the text with its elements affecting the reader and the recipient. Therefore, today it has become a critical theory with a scientific and literary approach in Arabic literature in general, and in the light of the foregoing, this research may be our attempt to study the Arabic Pragmatic Theory in both its theoretical and applied forms. The theoretical Pragmatic study is relying on the writings of the discoverer of the theory, the theorist, Professor Abdulrazak Alghaliby and his important six-volume encyclopedia, through which we got acquainted with the concept of theory, its foundations, and its scientific and literary rules.