al-tamthil wal muhadhara written by al-thaalibi is one of the brilliant books in arabic language. this book is unique in its kind because of a number of iranian ancient proverbs and wisdom. among which there are arabicized persian proverbs rooted in far-off ancient history still in common use today. this paper studied these age-old and yet familiar proverbs which are never thought of being root...

in the books written on rhetorics, figures of speech, and literary terms one may find different non-systematic classifications of puns. some of these methods have been translated from the arabic literary texts. some other classifications are based on phonetics and phonology. in this research after surveying the common methods of classification, it has been tried to put forward certain new scien...

Abstract The aim of intercultural translation is to communicate. Communication is acted via verbal as well as visual means. The interaction of verbal and visual means of communication makes a set of complex situations which demand special attention in translation. One context in which the interaction of visual and verbal elements gets vital importance is children’s picture books. Color is an in...

Behavior, and the Anthropometric Examination. The second part, dealing with the Norms of Infant Growth, describes behavior norms, gives a summary of maturity levels, a functional syllabus, and also anthropometric norms. The third part is devoted to an Analytic Appraisal of Growth Status and includes the principles of genetic analysis, the analytic developmental schedule, and the clinical apprai...

Extensive experience in written language might provide children the opportunity to learn to read in the same manner they learn spoken language. One potential type of written language immersion is reading aloud to children, which is additionally valuable because the vocabulary in picture books is richer and more extensive than that found in child-directed speech. This study continues a compariso...

As global political preeminence gradually shifted from the United Kingdom to the United States, so did the capacity to culturally influence the rest of the world. In this work, we analyze how the world-wide varieties of written English are evolving. We study both the spatial and temporal variations of vocabulary and spelling of English using a large corpus of geolocated tweets and the Google Bo...

undoubtedly the developments in arabian countries are one of the most important and influential developments that have occurred in the middle east over the past decades. of course there are widespread differences of opinions in regard of the nature, content and even the title or name of these developments. as a matter of fact some consider it as arab spring, arab developments and others conside...