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This article examines Constructed Dialogue as Conversational Involvement in the story of Musa (Moses) and Al-Khadir in Surah Al-Kahf (ayat 60-82) in the Holy Qur’an. It is a linguistic technique usually followed to analyze Conversational Narratives, where the whole body of story is developed through dialogues, and thus converting it into a drama. The storyteller performs the role of real character of story and the reported speech (usually different from the words of actual story) represents the central theme of narrative. The significance of Constructed Dialogue lies in its extensive application on stories from Greek language to Biblical and Qur’anic narratives. The Qur’anic story of Musa (Moses) and Al-Khadir is analyzed through reported speech (dialogues of Moses and Al-Khadir). To create conversational involvement, different features of constructed dialogue suggested by Deborah Tannen have been kept in view. These features include direct quotation in reported speech, exchange of dialogue, speaker’s thoughts, thoughts of listener, historical present verbs, repetition, deletion of the verb of saying and linking, use of second person singular (you or thou) etc. The study is concluded through substantiating the role of Constructed dialogue in the story of Moses and Al-Khadir in creating conversational involvement of storyteller and audience through showing involvement of characters like Moses and Al-Khadir.
Sardar Muhammad. (2020) Conversational Involvement in the Qur’anic Story of Musa (Moses) and Al-Khadir: A Study of Constructed Dialogue, AFKĀR (Journal of Islamic & Religious Studies) , Volume 4, Issue 2.
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