The Act of Promise and Threat in Translated Verses of Law in The Qur'an
Abstract: This study was aimed
at finding the patterns of promise and threat in translated verses of law in
the Qur’an and their syntactical realization.The data source for this research
is the translated Qur’an published by the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the
Republic of Indonesia. Data for this research are verses of law in marriage,
inheritance, and trade containing the acts of promise and threat. The data were
collected by reading and note-taking technique.The coding system by Blum- Kulka
et al (1989) was adapted to analyze data for the study. It was found that the
patterns of promise in translated verses of law can be classified into
directive-commissive-conditional promise (DCCP), commissive-conditional promise
(CCP), and neither-directive-nor-conditional promise (NDNCP).
Directive-commissive-conditional threat (DCCT) is the only pattern of threat
occurring in this study. Those speech acts are realized through conditional
sentences and simple sentences. The conclusion is that the linguistic balance
in the Qur’an can be found not only at the level of word and phrase, but also
at the speech act level.
Author: Nurul Chojimah
Journal Code: jpantropologigg160021
