Literary texts include linguistic form, as well as specialized literary forms (some of which also involve language). Linguistics can offer to literary studies an understanding of these kinds of form, and the ways by which a text is used to communicate meaning. In order to cope with the great variety of creative uses of language in literature, linguistics must acknowledge that some texts are ass...

This study focuses on the conceptualization of jihad in text Hikayat Prang Sabi by Teungku Chik Pante Kulu. provides a constructive discourse thought for readers understanding jihad. narrates as literally meaning ‘striving’ or ‘struggling’ Arabic, such wars, and it also examines Acehnese literary texts. The method used this research is descriptive-qualitative. data were analyzed through hermene...

This paper studies Tolkien’s interpretation of German heroism, taking as a starting point his essay-poem «The Homecoming Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son» on The Battle Maldon. Through academic texts Beowulf and Sigurd, well own legendarium, reading contribution are explored, placing the latter in dialogue with latest research, detailing lines scope ideas. After locating inflection that Tolkien mark...

The essay discusses the potential of theological significance so-called "African presence" in Bible, that is, biblical texts referring to entities today would be labelled "African," particular, references Egypt and Cush. focus, therefore, is on encounter between these socio-religious experiences concerns contemporary African studies. concludes presence "Africa Africans" has balancing universali...

According to Stuart Hall’s theory of encoding and decoding, an audience member, based on their individual ideological perspectives, can read media texts in one of three ways: dominant, negotiated, or resistant. Hall’s theory, however, also implies that the producer will always encode a dominant or hegemonic message. Given semantically messy texts like music videos, however, producers now have t...

Abstract When world literature is seen as a product of translation and circulation mode reading, new attributes, other than literariness, can be inferred, such relevance to readers, combination cultural peculiarity universality, accessibility. A case study Wolf Totem reveals that these attributes explain how commercial publishers frame, translators rewrite, readers interpret works. Commercial p...

Temporal dependencies reveal interesting insights into the semantic discourse structure of narrative texts. The investigations of literary scientists are, as of today, mostly based on labor-intensive manual annotations. Computational Narratology, an important subtopic of the Digital Humanities, aims at facilitating annotations and supporting literary scientists with their analyses. According to...

and necromancy; and magic as entertainment. Readers of this journal will be particularly interested in her section on medical magic. Jolly explains that this was an especially "fuzzy" area. Medieval medicine embraced both a material and spiritual understanding of illness in which physical and religious factors played a part. Within this context, it is often difficult to distinguish magical medi...

admittedly, one of the problems facing the high school education system in iran is that students do not show interest in arabic and obtain very low marks. this is specially important because arabic is the key to understanding religious texts and our literary and scientific heritage. a study of 400 high school students from various education districts in the city of mashhad, using a cluster samp...