The eagle is a bird widespread in all cultures and beliefs. Throughout history, it has gained rich symbolic reference. It appears antiquity as royal mythological personification of the gods. Christian world saw symbol rebirth, well Christ himself. was used art culture, also Greek liturgy soteriological, baptismal eucharistic symbol. writers theologians pay much attention to it, deriving its sym...

the present article studies the symbolism in the poetry of badrshakir al-siab. his literary method played an important role in leading the literature of 50s and 60s in iraq and the whole arab world. this article tries to express how siab after becoming familiar with western literature and being affected by the european symbolist poets could add a new form to the contemporary arabic poetry. he t...

Sound symbolism is a non-arbitrary relationship between speech sounds and meaning. We review evidence that, contrary to the traditional view in linguistics, sound symbolism is an important design feature of language, which affects online processing of language, and most importantly, language acquisition. We propose the sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis, claiming that (i) pre-verbal infan...

At the time of its publication, Nima Yushij’s “Qoqnus” (The Phoenix) emerged as a radical departure from the norms and conventions of classical Persian poetry. Nima employed phoenix symbolism in this poem to present his zeal for a literary renaissance. Likewise, George Darley (1795-1846), the Irish Romantic poet who found himself lonely and isolated at the mitigating time borders of Romanticism...

Universal #1926 (originally 1932) from Plank and Filimonova’s Universals Archive states that diminutives are characterized in high front vowels and augmentatives in high back vowels (ibid.) Ultan (1978) and Niewenhuis (1985) have extended this observation by the claim that palatal and post-alveolar consonants prevail in diminutives and back consonants are characterized for augmentatives. The ci...

Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Symbolism offers an innovative general theory of symbolism, derived from Freud’s psychoanalytic theory and relocated within mainstream scientific psychology. It is the first systematic investigation of the development of Freud’s treatment of symbolism throughout his published works, and discovers in those writings a broad theory which is far superior to the widely acc...