Multicultural Education Volume 6, Issue 5, 2020 _______________________________________________________________________________________ 116 Reiteration as an Instance of Lexical Cohesion in theQur'anic Discourse: The Case of At-Takweer Surah Shaymaa Abid Abdulameer, Mohammad Ghazanfari, Reza Pishghadam Article Info Abstract Article History Received: September 20,2020 As one of thecohesive devices in the development of discourse, “reiteration”has been considered as an effective textual strategy involving any unit of atext, such as morphemes, words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, as various means ofachieving emphasis, clarity, continuity, multiplicity, or textual integrity. Reiteration can even be extended as a method of contributing to the progress anddevelopment of ideas. But, if used unskillfully, it could simultaneouslyproduce redundancy, monotony, or even banality. Several studies have indicated that reiteration of words and utterances is one of the distinctive textual features of The Holy Qur'an(cf. for instance, Abdul- Raof, 2006, Saffarzaddeh, 2004).The present study hasaimed to investigate different forms of reiterationand the types of function they serve in The Qur'anic discourse, in general, and in a single Qur'anic Surah (i.e., At- Takweer), in particular. Our intention has been to examine not only the cohesive functions that reiterations as instances of lexical cohesion serve, but also to investigate the rhetorical effects produced as a result of reiterating utterances in the entire discourse of the text in question.Then investigating how they are used inreflecting sparkling ideas and intentions. Accepted: November 23,2020 Keywords Reiteration, Cohesive Devices, Discourse Of Religious Texts, The Holyqur'an DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4308558 1. Introduction Reiterationis considered as one of the cohesive devices that plays an important role in understanding the discourse. First of all, it is better to illustrate what is meant by discourse and cohesive devices. Richards, Platt, and Platt (1992, p. 111) define “discourse as a general term for language use, i.e. language whichhas been produced as a result of an act of communication. ” Moreover, Widdowson (2007, p. 46) states that “cohesive devices serve to link parts of a text together. It is important to note, however, that they (i.e. these cohesive devices) do so (i.e. link parts of the texts together) so that new content is understood in relation to the context that has been established in the reader's mind by what has been said before. ”Thecurrent study deals with one of these cohesive devices, it is “Reiteration”; Tanskanen (2006) illustrates that many studies used the term “Repetition” instead of “Reiteration”: such relation includes the repetition of a lexical item, either identically, or in a modified form (synonymic expression, generalization, specification, and co-specification). The term“reiteration”can be used to emphasize or clarify certain idea or speech. Abdul- Raof (2006, p. 112) asserts that “reiteration of expressions, which is a form of lexical cohesion, is also regarded as an affirmation technique in Arabic rhetoric.”Moreover, linguistically, Baker (1992), states that lexical reiteration is considered as the safest way inavoiding ambiguity of reference in contexts.It is undeniable that the term “reiteration” has a great role among language by expressing lots of the intentions of the speaker/ speakers to transfer among hearer/ hearers. The literature relevant to this study is somewhat unlimited in scope. Among those linguists, who have consideredreiteration as one of the cohesive devices, are Sled (1959); Vivian and Jackson (1961); Kane and Peter (1966); Irmscher (1972); De Beaugrande and Dressler (1972); Chapman (1973); Halliday and Hasan (1976); and Hoey (1991). For Halliday and Hasan (1976, p. 318), “reiteration is a form of lexical cohesion which involves the direct repetition of a lexical item, at one end of the scale; the use of a general word to refer back to a lexical item, at the other end of the scale; and a number of things in between the use of a synonym, near-synonym or subordinate.” Leech (1985, p. 121) defines “the deliberate deviation from the rules of the language code or from the accepted conventions of its use which stands out, or it is Foregrounding, against a background of normal usage.” 2. The Concept of Cohesion and its Role in Discourse It is better to illustrate the concept of 'Cohesion' whenever there is a discussion about relations of meaning and references in texts.Grisot (2018) demonstrates that after the pioneering research on cohesion in English by Halliday and Hasan (1976), the notions of coherence, continuity and cohesive relations have been widely used in relation to a number of phenomena, such as pronominal, demonstrative and comparative relation. However, the notion of cohesion for Halliday and Hasan is a symbolic term and a property of a text that arises when the