Fasaha of the Speaker, Balagha of Discourse and Contextual Appropriateness

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• Why does the source describe speaker-fasaha as a malaka?
• A person recites a memorized fasih sentence but cannot formulate new ones. What remains unproven?
• What is implied by rasikha in “kayfiyya rasikha fi al-nafs”?
• An accomplished speaker is silent. What follows about speaker-fasaha?
• What does the commentary clarify about “bi-lafz fasih”?
• Which case evaluates discourse-fasaha rather than the speaker’s faculty?
• Which pairing is necessary for discourse-balagha?
• A passage is fasih but excessively emphatic for its setting. What follows?
• In the denial example, what is the addressee’s denial?
• When the hearer denies, what is the role of emphasis?
• What chiefly supplies emphasis in “inna Zaydan fi al-dar”?
• What is the grammatical function of Zaydan in the source example?
• If someone simply asks where Zayd is, what rhetorical criterion applies?
• What does the variation of rhetorical stations imply?
• Why might “jaʾa rajulun” suit an initial mention?
• If the aim is a diligent student, what does mujtahidan add in “akrim taliban mujtahidan”?
• What can fronting al-kitaba accomplish in “al-kitaba qaraʾa Zaydun”?
• When can answering “Zaydun” to “man hadara?” be rhetorically apt?
• What is the basic formal contrast between fasl and wasl?
• Why does the presence of waw alone not prove appropriate wasl?
• Which description best captures ijaz?
• When can itnab be rhetorically appropriate?
• What communicative principle follows from the classical contrast of hearers?
• What is the force of “every word has a station with its companion”?
• What does the contrast between in and idha illustrate?
• One fasih utterance on a single occasion does not by itself prove an established speaker-faculty.
• Conformity to context alone suffices for discourse-balagha even if the wording is unfasih.
• The addressee’s denial is a hal, while suitable emphasis can be its demand.
• Fronting, ellipsis and amplification are always more eloquent, regardless of circumstances.
• The distinction between in and idha shows that selecting particles may require attention to rhetorical context.