english abstracts / 11 ibn anbari s principles and style in the book al-ensaf fi masael al-khelaf eisa motaghi zadeh * majid mohammadi ** abstract after combing arabic language with non arabic and expanding the issue of diction, linguists tried to preserve the quran language, consequently they decided to legislate some special rules for facilitating the teaching of arabic grammar. very soon, su...

This paper describes the project called Axolotl which comprises a Spanish-Nahuatl parallel corpus and its search interface. Spanish and Nahuatl are distant languages spoken in the same country. Due to the scarcity of digital resources, we describe the several problems that arose when compiling this corpus: most of our sources were non-digital books, we faced errors when digitizing the sources a...

This paper uses detailed weekly data on sales of hardcover fiction books to evaluate the impact of New York Times book reviews on sales. In order to weigh the relative propensity of reviews to inform and to persuade, the analysis utilizes a measure of review opinion obtained through a systematic reading of each review. The estimates indicate that in the case of book reviews, any publicity is go...

Göteborg University Library has signed a contract with netLibrary providing users on the University’s network access to 500 copyrighted electronic books. These electronic books represent “the third wave” at our Digital Librarythe earlier "waves" of resource networking were bibliographic databases and electronic journals. The project is funded by the university board and was started in 2001 afte...

This demo paper introduces an editor for manual annotation of locations in digital books, using a crowd-sourcing approach. It is the first of its kind and allows book lovers and literary travel enthusiasts to annotate the locations in their digital books on-the-go. We show both a mobile and a desktop version, and briefly explain the linkage to the Digital Library that is holding the digital books.

abstract textbooks play an important role in english language teaching (elt), particularly in the english as a foreign language (efl) context where it provides the primary linguistic input. the present research was an attempt to comparatively evaluate the touchstone series in terms of compliment and complaint speech acts. four touchstone textbooks (book 1, book 2, book 3, and book 4) were selec...

This paper presents a first approach to analyzing the factors that determine the citation characteristics of books. For this we use the Thomson Reuters’ Book Citation Index, a novel multidisciplinary database launched in 2010 which offers bibliometric data of books. We analyze three possible factors which are considered to affect the citation impact of books: the presence of editors, the inclus...

al-suyuti's al jame'a al saghir is a famous narrative collections of sunnite compiled alphabetically in terms of initial letter of narratives. this study is to assess methodical degree of aforementioned book in field of dissection of narratives. the present study, based on the systematic hierarchical approach is provided by quantitative content analysis, assesses 400 narratives from t...