The Semantic Functioning for the Context in Both Arabic and English - Contrastive Study

Context is one of the most important clues to understand and explain texts correctly. The context has the most important role in a word’s acquisition of the intended meaning, in the light of the linguistic and lexical connotation of the word, as well as the verbal and status clues surrounding it. The attention of Arabic scholars was linked to the context, during their tireless work in clarifying the verses of the Holy Quran, trying to understand them and explore their depths. Explaining the Qur’anic texts became their primary concern to reach an accurate understanding of what was stated in the Book of God in terms of divine rulings, orders, and prohibitions. Knowledge of context among Arabs was linked to the efforts of Arabic scholars, including interpreters and others, while contextual theory in the West was linked to modern linguistic studies, which have been active in Europe since the beginning of the twentieth century, in addition to the emergence of theories of discourse analysis that flourished in the twentyfirst century. The research aims to identify the fundamental differences between the contextual and Quranic theory of Arabic scholars, and the contextual theory of Western scholars in the modern era