The use of literary texts in teaching language has varied from the strict focus on translation and essential grammar vocabulary lists derived text to more creative uses like acting, writing debating. Nowadays, communicative approach prevails most classrooms insists immersing students into both target culture. In this paper, author argues that accomplish this, one can a number ways help learn, p...

based on the theory of intertextuality, literary texts are in natural interaction with other texts before their time. the present study is an attempt to explain the relation between quran - as a religious literary text - with pre-islamic poetry. however the holy quran has a divine origin, but its language is a humane language and understandable to all people. thus, we see the vocabulary and str...

today commentary work has a significant role and place among the readers of persian literary texts and those interested in them. the growing importance of commentary works in helping the readers understand and popularity of commentary works, notably in recent decades, has caused different commentators with different knowledge level and abilities to write comments and foster this disorganized ma...

We study the variation of word frequencies in Russian literary texts. Our findings indicate that the standard deviation of a word’s frequency across texts depends on its average frequency according to a power law with exponent 0.62, showing that the rarer words have a relatively larger degree of frequency volatility (i.e., “burstiness”). Several latent factors models have been estimated to inve...

since the start of the last century, along with those literary men who took a literary approach to the study of literary texts, there has been another group who has taken a linguistic approach. the ancient and ever flourishing tradition of literary studies of translation can no doubt take benefit from linguistic methods and tools in the investigations of literary texts. as a result of this we c...