ABSTRACT
The present account is concerned with two major levels of stylistic textual analysis:
The linguistic level, which investigates the syntactic, morphological, semantic and pragmatic prominent features of discourse, and
The rhetorical level, which accounts for the major tropes of Qur’anic discourse.
In the production of each message, written or spoken, the text producer makes intentional stylistic choices that will enable him/her to relay successfully his/her designated message, that is, the intended meaning, to the text receiver. Regardless of whether the intended meaning of the text will be understood or misunderstood by the addressee, the text producer employs stylistic mechanisms through which his/her message is delivered. The stylistic techniques employed in the delivery of the message are hinged upon two major mechanisms: (i) linguistic and (ii) rhetorical.