Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) informed genre theory, this paper investigates the interplay between narrative and analytical representations of past in texts used for history-educational purposes. In paper, it is argued that role merits further attention history descriptions. Thirteen texts, selected from a lower-secondary history-instructional unit about European colonization, ...

Run Shaw Library of City University Hong Kong (CityU) is the first university library in to acquire Collection Korean Anthologies (CKA) (Hanja: 《韓國歷代文集叢書》; Hangul: 한국역대문집총서), a massive collection more than 3,000 classic anthologies written by writers from 7th century early 20th Chinese characters. In 2012, CityU, collaboration with Jeju National (Korea) and California, Berkeley (USA), launched ...

This is a comparative study in two ways. After a summary of the historical and cultural research into traditional healing which is relevant to this article, then some comments about the general usage of such themes in contemporary Irish literature, the article moves on to examine the role and function of traditional healing as a motif in four specific literary texts. These are: two Irish plays,...

Can a cultural memory and identity constructed around traumatic events in the historical past, interpreted as the result of pollution of the sacred center, give a group an evolutionary advantage under the right conditions? This article assesses this question by examining three different waves of religious entrepreneurship that drove the evolution of the ancient Israelite religion between the la...

The notion of a singular document relating to other documents is ancient. Religious texts across cultures have included and attracted annotations, texts providing discussion and commentary on holy scriptures. Roman jurists referenced other legal decisions and precedents precisely, though other Roman authors only rarely referenced the authors, and less frequently the titles, of works on which th...

the cities of jay in pre-islamic and yahudiya in the post islamic period were located in a plain delimited from three sides by surrounding heights. this area, referred to in historical and geographical documents as the rostāq-i jay, was the most important rural district of isfahan's khora. with rising of buyids, they decided to change the seat of power from jay to yahudiya and consequently...

While todays orthography is very strict and seldom changes, this has not always been true. In historical texts spelling of words often not only varies from todays but in some periods even varies from use to use in a single text. Information retrieval on historical corpora can deal with these variations using fuzzy matching techniques based on Levenshtein-Distance using stochastic weights. In pa...