This study is a joint project involving alcohol-addiction experts and experts on comparative literature, who selected and defined the literary texts that were employed. The research included long-term alcohol abstainers, members of aftercare supportive-therapy groups (n = 68). The research aimed to obtain some basic information about their reading habits, to test their responsiveness to various...

Religious principles and values provide meaning and affect personal identity. They may also conflict with intimate needs and desires. This article examines how gay Catholics manage conflicting areas between their sexual and religious selves. Eight Polish gays with a Catholic background, who identified themselves as strong believers, shared their experiences during semi-structured interviews tha...

What is the role of interpretation—the close reading individual texts—in cognitive literary studies? In attempting to come grips with this vexed question, my article focuses on complex divides that separate practice interpretation from cognitive-scientific research. I argue studies can only fulfill their potential by moving beyond interpretation, and survey lines research have already put into ...

Idiolects are person-dependent similarities in language use. They imply that texts by one author show more similarities in language use than texts between authors. Sociolects, on the other hand, are group-dependent similarities in language use. They imply that texts by a group of authors, for instance in terms of gender or time period, share more similarities within a group than between groups....

Encoding meaningful semantic relationships in literary texts is almost as difficult defining and identifying them. Defining the types components of that can be extracted from a quite challenging task because literature full implicit oblique messages references. Subsequently, encoding even more often relations do not have neither clear nor standard linguistic form usually they overlap each other...

the literary approach to quranic interpretations is founded on words, morphology, syntax and rhetoric. however, contemporary literary school, in addition to these principles, takes into account other principles like authenticating solely the literary understanding. comparing sayyid murtazā's literary approach with the principles and ideas of sheikh tusi in al-tibyan reveals various aspects...