Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 101, No. 2, Apr. - Jun., 1981 The Grammatical Terms Al-Musnad, Al-Musnad ʾIlayhi and al-ʾisnād This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer ...

Such metapragmatic terms occur frequently in discourse and serve a range of communicative functions. Not only are they used to perform or report speech acts, they are also used to clarify or challenge ...