The Kitāb al-Bayān wa-l-Tabyīn (The Book of Clear Communication) by Abū ʿUthmān al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/868) is an encyclopaedic study of communication and its place within human societies—specifically of communication through Arabic, the language of divine revelation, and its place within the ʿAbbasid polity. God’s use of Arabic in the Qurʾān endowed the community of Muslims with a special status. The proper use of Arabic was central to how man fully and appropriately thanked God for His gift of creation. It was also central to how the Qurʾān was properly recited and explicated. This article presents a translation of the majority of a chapter from the first volume of Kitāb al-Bayān wa-l-Tabyīn in which al-Jāḥiẓ explores the phenomenon of misarticulation ( luthghah ). His exploration of this phenomenon touches on phonetics, physiology and anatomy, speech disorders (considered by al-Jāḥiẓ to be ‘defects’), linguistic barbarisms, and mimicry, and thus it becomes an exposition of what clear communication is not.

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Al-Jāḥiẓ 关于发音错误：Bayān 1.34.4-74.8

Abū ʿUthmān al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/868) 所著的 Kitāb al-Bayān wa-l-Tabyīn（清晰交流之书）是一部关于交流及其在人类社会中地位的百科全书研究——特别是通过阿拉伯语进行交流，神圣启示的语言，以及它在 ʿAbbasid 政体中的地位。真主在古兰经中使用阿拉伯语赋予了穆斯林社区特殊的地位。正确使用阿拉伯语是人类如何充分和适当地感谢上帝创造的礼物的核心。这也是如何正确背诵和解释《古兰经》的核心。本文介绍了 Kitāb al-Bayān wa-l-Tabyīn 第一卷中大部分章节的翻译，其中 al-Jāḥiẓ 探讨了发音错误 (luthghah) 的现象。他对这一现象的探索涉及语音学、生理学和解剖学，