The Integration between Linguistics, Humanities, and Social Sciences in Highlighting the Guidance of the Quranic Stories in Combating Hate Speech

Abstract

Preachers' methods increasingly have little influence in limiting the spread of hate speech in social networks and other media platforms. This research discusses the possibility of benefiting from the epistemological theories presented in pragmatics linguistics, namely Paul Grice's Cooperation Principle. I begin by justifying the accuracy of that uses; then, I trace its presence in the prophets' speech utilizing a set of inductive, deductive, and descriptive methods. The research shows the presence of the cooperation principle in the deliberative discourse of prophets. Additionally, it proves that their violation of this principle was to serve the purposes of certain dialogues, all to facilitate communicating the main issues and reducing the motives of hate speech. The research recommends taking advantage of the linguistic tools of modern linguistic studies to approach religious texts from new innovative aspects, without being captive to its theories, nor making it a standard for critiquing fundamental religious texts, and taking into account the holiness of the Quran.