التماسك السببي في النص الروائي العربي المعاصر؛ قصة قاع المدينة ليوسف إدريس نموذجا

Semantic coherence of "causality" in Arabic contemporary narrative texts. (A Case study of Yusuf Idris's qāʽ al-madina (The Bottom of the City))

Coherence relates terminologically in general to the text linguistic and in particular to textuality. De Beaugrande and Dressler in describing positive factors or the features manifesting sum of the sentences as a text point to seven factors of which two factors of meaning coherence and continuity are important in textuality. Connection in semantic level or deep structure is achieved through different Factors, that the causality factor can be the most important of them; Because it is depended to the relationships of text propositions from causative considerations. Causality in addition to the other coherence factors makes higher level structures with the chains of strong relations between small units. The function of these elements are naturally different in in frequency and importance from text to text. the present article investigates important factor of semantic connection, i.e., causality, in a contemporary story, and studies how much enjoys a contemporary narrative text from this factor as well as how it functions through a descriptive- analytic method and an statistical approach. The analysis of frequency shows that causal factor is not so frequent in parts of the story that contains descriptive pauses. But in action-based parts this factor more present and effective presence in different levels of analysis.