Linguistic Analysis of Human Arrogance in Quranic Discourse: A Case Study of the Pillars and Manifestations

‘Arrogance’ is one of the frequently-used negative Quranic concepts, and reflection upon its various aspects is necessary for the proper training of human beings and for the salvation of humankind from misdeeds and misguidance. The present article seeks to elucidate the pillars and manifestations of ‘arrogance’ as well as its meaning elements by extracting the linguistic structures of this concept in human and non-human instances in the words of revelation. The findings indicate that God has referred to such pillars of human arrogance as geniocracy, cultural poverty and news blackmail using various language structures at the lexical, morphological, syntactic, and rhetorical levels and has used these elements to depict ‘arrogance’ in the form of power-orientationism, character assassination, disuniting and social asphyxia for the reader.