Linguistics
Ataullah Riki Kuteh; Bahar seddighi
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Conceptual metaphor is a new tool in cognitive science that focuses on human cognition to conceptualize abstract and non-objective concepts. In this method, abstract and unfamiliar concepts (destination domains) are understood through other concrete and tangible conceptual domains (source domains). The ...
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Conceptual metaphor is a new tool in cognitive science that focuses on human cognition to conceptualize abstract and non-objective concepts. In this method, abstract and unfamiliar concepts (destination domains) are understood through other concrete and tangible conceptual domains (source domains). The main challenge in conceptual metaphor is establishing systematic correspondences between the two domains of source and destination, known as mapping. The Holy Qur´an is replete with abstract concepts such as "Unbelief" and "Faith". To better understand these concepts, it is necessary to use new methods of analyzing concepts, especially conceptual metaphors. The present study used an analytical-descriptive method to identify and analyze conceptual metaphors related to the concepts of "Unbelief" and "Faith" in the verses of blessing in the last six components of the Holy Qur´an, in order to reveal how abstract concepts are expressed. By analyzing the conceptual metaphors in this part of the Holy Qur´an, it can be concluded that the cognitive status of human beings forms the basis for expressing the concepts of Unbelief and Faith. The concept of "Unbelief" as the destination domain is conceptualized by familiar concepts such as darkness, uncleanness, blindness, battle, and resistance to Faith. On the other hand, concepts such as light, cleanliness, trade, travel, competition, and the right path are used to conceptualize "Faith". Through these metaphors, faith can be seen as light, cleanliness, trade, travel, competition, and valuable objects found on the right path; while unbelief is depicted as darkness, uncleanness, blindness, battle against faith
Haniye Majidi fard; Bahar Seddighi
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Contemporarily freedom has gained paramount importance with the emergence of intellectual movements. Political issues in societies resulted in committed literature so as to address the individual and social needs emerged in this new era. For instance, the works of such prominent writers as Mikhail Naimy ...
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Contemporarily freedom has gained paramount importance with the emergence of intellectual movements. Political issues in societies resulted in committed literature so as to address the individual and social needs emerged in this new era. For instance, the works of such prominent writers as Mikhail Naimy and Ahmed Shamlou have left many works on the issue of human freedom. The aim of this research was seek the manifestations of Marxism, Christianity and intellectual progress in the works of Mikhail Naimy (1889) and Ahmad Shamlou (1925). It also endeavored to describe and analyze differences and similarities in the works of these writers in terms of these issues.The results showed various manifestations of Marxism, Christianity and intellectual progress in the two writers’ works. Additionally, the difference in the manifestation of these subjects resides in the very discourse they chose for their work. Naimay's goal in raising these issues was spiritual freedom and Shamlou's goal was social freedom. Naimy’s reading of the three issues in the modern era is in accordance with contemporary ideology and his works can be analyzed individually and cognitively based on virtue (English modernity), but because of his character, the manifestation of Marxist philosophy will not be complete and practical in his works and will be established only in the stage of consciousness; therefore he is not considered a Marxist, but Shamlou’s reading of the three issues is consistent with the ideology of the modern age, and his work can be analyzed socially and politically in the context of American modernity.
Bahar Seddighi
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.The aim of this study was to illustrate a historical and revolutionary linguistic etymology of “Ostura” regarding the same other words as Persian “Estareh”, Hebrew “Estar” and Sami Aramic “Estar”, “Eshtar”, “Athtar”. There ...
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.The aim of this study was to illustrate a historical and revolutionary linguistic etymology of “Ostura” regarding the same other words as Persian “Estareh”, Hebrew “Estar” and Sami Aramic “Estar”, “Eshtar”, “Athtar”. There are various theories about myth and its function in the literature of nations and its influence in disciplines such as psychology, literature, criticism, religions and history. The study also depicts the connection between myth and Greek mythology and words such as story or history. The present research is different from other researches in terms of the recognition of the beliefs of western scientists about Ostura from a positivism evolutionary historical point of view and Darwinism historical process. In no other researches there is a clear and decisive view on the etymology of the myth, its signification, its true meaning at the beginning, and its place in ancient Iran and especially its connection with similar words. The results of the study show that since history has a close relationship with star and astronomy, Osturas are as well star mappings that represent the existence of resting stars in the very beginning of the history and also a recorder of the appearance of moving stars according to traditional human being. Therefore Ostura is found in a lot of star samples which are sun-born, moon-born or star-born. Moreover, it represents heavenly house of the gods and Ziggurats which are the eternal house of the immortal gods. This indicator is clearly seen in the name of the city which was built by Keyumars, that is, Babel (Bab+el/eel), which means Gates of the gods.
Bahar seddighi; Seyed Mohamad Bagher Hoseini
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What may raise the question at the outset as to what connection there may be between the Ferdinand de Saussure, a twentieth-century Swiss linguist, and Ibn Khaldun, an eighth- and ninth-century Tunisian ideologue and theorist, which led to this Writing, should the idea of comparing their views ...
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What may raise the question at the outset as to what connection there may be between the Ferdinand de Saussure, a twentieth-century Swiss linguist, and Ibn Khaldun, an eighth- and ninth-century Tunisian ideologue and theorist, which led to this Writing, should the idea of comparing their views on language come to the writer. Louis Ferdinand de Saussure was the first to examine language as a grammatical and lexical element of syntax and vocabulary. In his view, linguistic constructivism is based on the duality of the signifier and signified in language; In other words, the structure of language has dual aspects in his view; One is the language that he considers to be a general mental system, and the other is speech that has a physical and objective aspect. Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist who propounded language as a social structure or, in other words, "The Public Knowledge of language" and discussion about it as a system with two separate elements; language and speech and also two methods Diachronism and Synchronism approach; Louis Ferdinand Sosor for the first time in the contemporary age and considered as a unique theory. However, this theory, to some extent similar, was formed by "Abdurrahman ibn Khaldun" a Muslim luminary theorist who propounded "The theory of mechanic and organic versatility in sociology and the philosophy of society about developed and undeveloped societies before Emile Durkheim. First, this article wants to briefly propound some outstanding ideas in Sosor's theory and then assess their value according to Ibn Khaldun's words.
Bahar seddighi
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Extended Abstract
Introduction
The fundamental indices of stream of consciousness in Arabic literature stretch back to a long time ago and appear to have been originated from a number of classic texts including “Hayy ibn Yaqdhan” by Avicenna, “Hayy ibn Yaqdhan” by Ibn Tufail, “Resalat ...
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Extended Abstract
Introduction
The fundamental indices of stream of consciousness in Arabic literature stretch back to a long time ago and appear to have been originated from a number of classic texts including “Hayy ibn Yaqdhan” by Avicenna, “Hayy ibn Yaqdhan” by Ibn Tufail, “Resalat Al-Ghufran” by Al-Maʿarri, and “Tawaba’a o Zavaba’a” by Ibn Shuhaid Andelosi. They have continued to date in novels written by Taha Hussain, Taqfiq Hakim, and Najib Mahfouz as well as stories by Gibran Khalil Gibran, poems by the poets of the Tammuz School, and fictional poems by Adonis, particularly in his “Qasayad Kolliyah”.
The main purpose of the study was to examine inquiries and research on reading poetic manifestations of stream of consciousness in Arabic literature along with the lack of research-based papers on the subject. In fact, research on stream of consciousness in the Arabic literature did not seek to detect and retrieve the signs of the stream within the contexts of philosophy and psychology in most instances; these inquiries solely sufficed with contrasting a certain number of formal indices of the stream with texts of contemporary stories. Accordingly, it was considered necessary to conduct this study due to the absence of an academic or general inquiry on retrieving the signs of stream of consciousness in Arabic contemporary poetry, particularly Adonis’ “Qasidah Kolliyah”.
Theoretical Framework
Initially, the present study attempts to explore origins and foundations of stream of consciousness in the West; to this end, first the history of the orientation towards mental reflection in the West’s fictional literature is represented. Then, the origins of the stream of consciousness method in the 20th century are provided in two dimensions including psychological and philosophical aspects, respectively. Next, the fundamental indices of stream of consciousness are presented in brief. As a conclusion, it is attempted to retrieve the theoretic emergence and the main constructs of stream of consciousness within the modern theory of contemporary Arabic poetry, i.e., Adonis’ “Qasidah Kolliyah”.
Method
The present study attempts to recognize and uncover the clear signs of stream of consciousness in the most advanced and complex type of contemporary Arabic poetry, that is Adonis’ “Qasidah Kolliyah” based on description and analysis according to psychological criticism. Through retrieving the prominent constructs of stream of consciousness in Adonis’ “Qasidah Kolliyah”, this study seeks to provide answers to the following questions:
Given the emergence of stream of consciousness indices in contemporary Arabic fiction, from which type of Arabic modern poetry can the clear manifestation of the stream be retrieved?
What are the most prominent indices of stream of consciousness manifested in modern types of poetry?
The most prominent hypotheses posed as responses to the previous questions include: 1. within the world of poetry, the theoretical foundations of “stream of consciousness” can be retrieved in the area of poetry with respect to “the new theorization of Arabic poetry”, i.e. “Qasidah Kolliyah” which is in line with contemporary Arabic fiction as well. 2. the most prominent constructs and indices of stream of consciousness are clearly manifested in Adonis’ “Qasidah Kolliyah” including expression, text, plot, music, language as ambiguity and rhetorical devices, time and narrative.
Results and Discussion
According to the present study, “stream of consciousness” can be explained as a mental strip containing what is said and unsaid by the mind that are set free from the lawful, linear path of the real life; it passes through every barrier against the reckless storm of the unconscious mind. It also passes through the Aristotelian concept of time and his triple unities within the infinite river of time, sweeping over all types of calendars; similar to a flood that washes away everything in its path, consciousness is a narrative formed by moments, hours, days, months and seasons in the form of poetry and prose at a short, yet watchful moment using an ambiguous expression while employing a writing style linked to the unconscious. Accordingly, restricting such a mental stream when writing a “story” is a considerable disgrace towards figures such as Adonis who had stepped into this river where fresh waters pass through at every second.
Conclusion
Given the results, Adonis’ “Qasidah Kolliyah” is the first and purest example of the use of stream of consciousness in Arabic poetry, whether classic or contemporary; this was observed particularly in the third poetic section as a coherent whole and a conflicted diary in terms of new linguistic structures, integration of various types of soliloquy, collocations and interference between time and place, mentioning the future and particularly the constant presence of the mental stream to observe and uncover within the dream world and the unconscious. This has also been proved by the style of writing as well as how punctuation marks are use across this work of poetry. Moreover, the footprints of James Joyce, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf’s beliefs regarding time and memories can clearly be observed in Adonis’ “Qasidah Kolliyah”.
kolsoum seddighi
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word formation and word selection in one hand’ are considered from higher processes a word aqualization which has a wide range application for language theorists and researchers in order to enrich language or in a better way in order to set free them from words.
Inadequacy challenge and also lach ...
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word formation and word selection in one hand’ are considered from higher processes a word aqualization which has a wide range application for language theorists and researchers in order to enrich language or in a better way in order to set free them from words.
Inadequacy challenge and also lach of the knowledge of the words in technology and industry fields aspecially in Arabic and Persian speaking countries The author in this research tries to review and study Arabic language speech texts of the new age and also the author wants to open a new horizon for the researchers who are interested in reading Arabic language variations which traditionally had language interchange with Persian language speakers on the basis of classical texts semantics read out methals of this language and comparing them with contemprars texts and speeches in the field of word selection and terminology by writing the mentioned pattern the author knows that in Arabic language after word formations word selection method is the second method which has a wide application in word equalization and synonym finding first by semantic and permissible improvement dominance especially with both new selection and selection approachs then by tranaslating borrowed word on the basis of of it’s structure and meaning and finagling by headword making methods.
Dr.Hossein Nazeri; Kolsum Seddiqi
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The echo of love melody is still heard in the songs of the Arabic intellectual poet khalil Hawi and the legends of fairies' charm and the story of the apple of life are the most audible songs of his poems narrating the fable of early human innocence and his fall from the heaven to the earth.
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The echo of love melody is still heard in the songs of the Arabic intellectual poet khalil Hawi and the legends of fairies' charm and the story of the apple of life are the most audible songs of his poems narrating the fable of early human innocence and his fall from the heaven to the earth.
The present article aims to review the psychological implications of “fairy” and “love in Hawi's songs ,since the perpetual presence of these two motifs along with the evil archetypal symbols like magician, serpent, death, grave, cave,and… in his poetry, through drawing a cryptic and tragic atmosphere, depict ambiguous imaginations which fade away under a strange shadow and confront the human mind with this question that actually from which part of the poet’s mind these strange imaginations and high imagery- which are directed downward- are originated and how the presence of the mutual dimensions of archetypal symbols in his songs are justifiable.
Keywords: love, fairy, unconscious mind, Hawi.