This paper illustrates the powerful role that drama can play in facilitating spiritual development. The opportunities offered through the experience of improvisation are examined through a detailed examination of a single drama session. The children’s engagement in and reflection upon the drama are seen as sensitive vehicles to build a sense of community, increase self knowledge, develop empath...

This paper illustrates the powerful role that drama can play in facilitating spiritual development. The opportunities offered through the experience of improvisation are examined through a detailed examination of a single drama session. The children’s engagement in and reflection upon the drama are seen as sensitive vehicles to build a sense of community, increase self knowledge, develop empath...

This paper illustrates the powerful role that drama can play in facilitating spiritual development. The opportunities offered through the experience of improvisation are examined through a detailed examination of a single drama session. The children’s engagement in and reflection upon the drama are seen as sensitive vehicles to build a sense of community, increase self knowledge, develop empath...

In this study we extracted speaker-specific functional expressions from political speeches using random forests in order to investigate speakers’ individual political styles. Along with methodological development, stylistics has expanded its scope into new areas of application such as authorship profiling and sentiment analysis in addition to conventional areas such as authorship attribution an...

The desire to understand and interpret the underlying mechanisms involved in creation reception of literary texts, influence these on human cognition goes back at least Aristotle’s Poetics. However, last century has witnessed a vast variety approaches understanding literature: plethora theories such as feminist, post colonialist, queer reader response well some practical ways analysis interpret...

â â â  the study of al-rahman surah stylistics’ â â â  â  mohammad khaqani isfahani * â  maryam jalilian ** â  â  abstract â  â  stylistics as a modern method explores linguistic and stylistic phenomena since form or content by itself is not sufficient to attain the gist of the text. in stylistics, the quality of the connection of the two and their effect on leading to understand are worked o...

drama is an obvious cultural activity. this literary form is a means of solidarity between human beings and opens new horizons for dialogue among races, ethnicities and different colors in spite of different point of views, opinions and beliefs. drama is proper for applying national themes and calling for freedom, rising against oppression and resistance. the present article surveys the works o...

the holy surah “al- shams” with its effective musical sound is striking in ear and heart and includes various meanings in its few words. shortness of distances and abundance of swears and various contradictions is evident in it which led me to study it in three levels of stylistics: phonetic level, combination level and semantic level.the aim of this study is to explore the beauties of its styl...

m. darvish, the contemporary poet of resistance in palestinian, has written poems, similar to persian poets, in “sepid” and “azad” poems, with freedom from the rhythm and rhyme of the traditional poems. vindication of the oppressed people and hostility to jewish regime of zionist, has shadowed on his odes, he has gifted his poems epic soul and warding off. in this article, stylistics of darvish...

Interactive Narrative is an approach to interactive entertainment that enables the player to make decisions that directly affect the direction and/or outcome of the narrative experience being delivered by the computer system. One common interactive narrative technique is to use a drama manager to achieve a specific narrative experience. To achieve character believability, autonomous character a...