The paper deals with the rigorous methods used in the research of concepts representing abstract notions like “friendship”, “love”, “hatred”, “conscience”, and “envy”. Concepts of that kind have no visible physical support in the material world except for the sound forms of the words representing them, thus causing additional difficulties in classification, research and analysis as well as stip...

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the careful selection and proper use of lexical elements is the distinguishing feature of the holy quran. these elements are classified as subsets of semiotics and each of them play their role within the context of a surah and topics that it covers. for example in luqman surah topics such as monotheism, polytheism, atheism, prayer and the day of resurrection are discussed by different methods s...

over the past twenty-five years, researchers have expressed considerable interest in titles of academic publications. unfortunately, conference paper titles (cpts) have only recently begun to receive attention. the aim of this study, therefore, is to investigate the text length, syntactic structure, and lexicon of cpts in applied linguistics. a data set of 698 titles was selected from the 2008 ...