The Difference Between Written and Speech Prose: Based on Conjunction and Disjunction in Nahj-ol-Balagha

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Some of the primitive critics have not made any difference between written and speech prose, and they didn’t even know speech prose. Gradually, some of the critics distinguished written prose from the speech one. But they didn’t believe in any difference between them .Over the time, main changes made in prose and its types. Thus, contemporary critics have to distinguish speech prose from written prose but they spoke a little about the difference between them. Conjunction and disjunction are the main factors in language. This subject is, known as "Fasl-o-Vasl" which in Arabic language, considered as one of the important matters in semantics. This paper tends to study Imam Ali's (AS) letters as the written prose and his Sermons as the Speech prose to prove that conjunction and disjunction differ written prose from the speech. 

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