Following the “spatial turn” of the last 3 decades in humanities and social sciences and the structure of semiotic object, this research studies space as the main semiotic object of Calvino’s (1972) Invisible Cities. Significance of this application resides in examining the possibility of providing a more concrete methodology based on the integration of Zoran’s (1984) 3 vertical levels of const...

this bipartite paper examines the function of tasrif in the quranic story of creation in the light of halliday's textual meta-function. first, the quranic concept of tasrif as a field in elm-al maani (semantics of syntax), and its relation to systemic linguistics is introduced and reviewed. then, through review of literature, it is referred to givenness hierarchy, empathy degree, point of ...

narratives provide a structured medium to construct and collect human experiences into a sequential word order. the current qualitative study employs the method of narrative analysis to investigate such twenty-five narratives belonging to the pakistani context, obtained from the collection of narratives archived on ‘the humans of new york’ (2015) blog. labov’s natural narrative model (1972) has...

Œis paper aŠempts a more formal approach to the legibility of text based programming languages, presenting, with proof, minimum possible ways of representing structure in text interleaved with information. Œis presumes that a minimalist approach is best for purposes of human readability, data storage and transmission, and machine evaluation. Several proposals are given for improving the express...

This paper describes Complex Textual Strings (CTS), a technique for manipulating structured text strings and an underlying application data structure by creating a two-way mapping between the text and the data structure. An editable specification, called unification grammars describes ~e structure and data mapping characteristics of a particular Instance of CTS. We also describe an interpreter ...

The present corpus-driven study addresses the current situation of translation criticisms published in print or online in the Iranian media. A sample of 17 criticisms (roughly 68,000 words altogether) from a variety of valid media outlets was compiled. Having been categorized into those with, and those without an ex- plicit theoretical framework, the criticisms were examined on two levels...