it is obvious that literature means prose and poetry and makes no difference either by arabs or non – arabs. but symbolism in the arabic concept has emerged since the emergence of the dark era’s literature and is loaned from the specific characteristics of dark era’s lives and is based on two elements: brevity and indirect speech. since the symbolism has emerged like a literary school generally...

The Covenant of the Promised Land: Territorial Symbolism in the Book of Mormon

In 1929 Sapir published a brief study from which he concluded that certain vocalic and consonantal sounds have a definite symbolic significance unrelated to the associative and linguistic value commonly attached to words.' His method consisted in presenting two 'unfamiliar' words (e.g. mal and mil), to which a meaning (e.g. 'table') was arbitrarily attached. His subjects reported whether mal sy...

The article describes and analyzes the phonetic means of expressing connotative semantics in literary texts modern Ukrainian writer scholarly thinker Myroslav Dochinets. Particular attention is paid to lexemes with indicators connotation, i.e. such language units (sound-symbolic words) that have markers qualitative quantitative sound expression. Words intensification respective sounds combinati...

The history of chemical nomenclature and symbolism is resplendent not only with proposals that were once widely used in the chemical literature, but which have since been displaced by more modern developments, but also with those which, however logical, were doomed to oblivion almost from their inception and which now survive as historical relics to be found only in the papers and books of thei...