Religious discourse offers significant value for linguistic analysis. Functional analysis of religious texts provides a lexico-semantic approach to interpreting these discourses, though it remains underexplored in the literature. To fill this gap, study undertook functional Parable Sower within framework transitivity. A mixed-method was employed. The text taken from Modern English Version (MEV)...

This article argues that an iconic event in the history of helping research—the story of the 38 witnesses who remained inactive during the murder of Kitty Genovese—is not supported by the available evidence. Using archive material, the authors show that there is no evidence for the presence of 38 witnesses, or that witnesses observed the murder, or that witnesses remained inactive. Drawing a di...

The voices of women have historically been muted in biblical texts from their ancient to more modern interpretations. This article will attempt ‘unhide’ the Parable Friend at Midnight by using a combination social-scientific criticism and ‘realistic’ reading as methodology inform an understanding how 1st-century Mediterranean audiences would understood be present parable where might not. In wor...

The public release of artificial intelligence tools such as Microsoft’s Bing Chat built on OpenAI’s generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) continues to spark extensive interest—attracting headlines, prompting important interdisciplinary questions, and posing dilemmas both ethical methodological. aim this paper is provide a sampling temporal snapshot AI-powered Bing’s abilities through the cre...

In The Prince with the Sad Eyes, short story that we will here interpret as a parable in context of Jung's theory archetypes, Andrić shows woman torn between her real and idealized partner, suffering consequence lack discernment matters heart, self-knowledge, most all, influences archetypes collective unconscious - animus shadow. thematizes projection psychological mechanism falling love, which...

Parable is a genre of oral and written literature, usually utilized to convey ethical moral lessons. Yet, Kafka's parabolic stories, “Jackals Arabs” “The Silence the Sirens” undermine any dominant perspective by transforming conventions parable genre: when socially controversial matters are presented through form in modern context, readers come observe variety perspectives simultaneously, inste...

Foundations are important. There is a Biblical parable about two builders. One builder builds his house on a solid foundation. When storms come, the house remains standing. The other builder builds his house on the sand. When storms come, the house falls. The truth conveyed here is that those who choose to lead a life in accordance to God’s word labor not in vain; whereas, those who choose to a...