Narratives About Language Mistakes in Classical Arabic Literature

Abstract

There are a lot of short stories about the language mistakes people make when using the language in the Arabic language resources. Those who misuse the language in these stories may sometimes be caliphs, rulers, scholars who are prominent in Islamic sciences, ordinary people, as well as leading scholars of the field of philology. Such mistakes can come to the foreground in daily conversations, sometimes they can come to the occasion while reading a verse or writing a formal writing. The reactions of the people who caused the language error also differ. While some of them have been scorned and scolded, others have been subjected to physical punishment. In this study, we tried to reveal the position of the language in the Arabic language by examining these types of narratives in the classical Arabic language sources.