The first Arabic book, a 5 × 11 cm volume titled Pi * „ Ð Ÿ s w  2 (Book of the prayer of hours), was printed in 1514 by Grégoire de Grégoire in Venice and Fano, under the protection of Pope Leo the 10th [1, p. 18 – 19]. It took about two centuries for Arabic book printing to move to the East: in 1727 the Ottoman printing agency was founded in Constantinople and started printing using Dutc...

This chapter examines thirty blogs for women engineers from a multimodal perspective, offering new ways of analysing their content and communicative strategies. The qualitative study focuses on how the interplay different modes such as image, writing, typography colour can be handled interpersonal ideational realizations are construed. final aim is to unravel relevant meaning-making practices u...

as a distinct socially constructed genre, wedding invitations (wis) offer a fruitful site for investigating how two areas of genre knowledge (i.e., form and content) change over time under the influence of sociocultural forces. through the examination of 100 iranian wis dating from 1970s to the present time, the study investigated the trajectories of change through time within the social semiot...

The study examines issues related to translating an author’s name and character names when these are considered paratexts. introduction briefly describes the interdisciplinary context of into paratextuality, pointing research areas emerging at intersection literary theory, translation studies, onomastics. paper then analyzes methods used in case authors’ names, pseudonyms, title characters, int...