“Fronti Nulla Fides”: No reliance can be placed on appearance. In a letter to the editor (AI Mugazine, Winter 1989), Benjamin Kuipers criticizes various points made in an earlier paper of ours (Akman and ten Hagen 1989). First, a side (nonetheless important) remark: Although Kuipers asserts that he distributes QSIM to interested researchers, our experience has been otherwise. Akman has tried tw...

the present research deals with verbal and visual values of the persian alphabet. man had achieved common results in this respect in the course of the history, and graphical forms are believed to act as a strong bridge between the man and the universe. the theoretical research is aimed at responding to fundamental questions in this respect including those concerning scientific and historical re...

extended abstract 1. introduction repetition is a lingual phenomenon which in various languages and in different frames, has been studied. the whole or part of the base is repeated in this process. hence, in farsi language, repetition is classified by two parts, total and partial. when the base is repeated perfectly, it is called total reduplication and if some part of the base will be repeated...

â â â  the study of al-rahman surah stylistics’ â â â  â  mohammad khaqani isfahani * â  maryam jalilian ** â  â  abstract â  â  stylistics as a modern method explores linguistic and stylistic phenomena since form or content by itself is not sufficient to attain the gist of the text. in stylistics, the quality of the connection of the two and their effect on leading to understand are worked o...

mohammad’s invitation letters, in addition to being sacred texts, include exact word combinations which are based on calculated and systematic arrangements of words and sentences. stylistics is a linguistic science which study texts along four dimensions: syntax, morphology, phonology, and signification. this science guides its audience and users to become aware of and enjoy interrelated and or...

list of the articles printed in fum journal of faculty of letters and humanities (language & literature) (nos. 1-179)

This study examined the identification of English consonants in noise by native speakers of Italian. The effect of age of first exposure to English was evaluated by comparing three groups of subjects who continued to use Italian relatively often but differed according to their age of arrival (AOA) in Canada from Italy (early: 7, mid: 14, late: 19 years). The subjects in the late group made more...

after weakening of traditional presence of rhythm and rhyme in poem and introducing of new issues and challenges, the necessity of using the capacity and various tools for indicating concepts received more attention. poets by using different elements struggled to communicate with their audience properly. one of these elements derived from music is repetition which is so brilliant in ahmad matar...

Abstract This study investigates ‘repetition’ in the English translation of the Arabic Novel, Adrift on the Nile (1993). It aims to explore the communicative functions of ‘repetition’ and to see if these functions have been maintained or lost in the process of translating the Novel. In addition, it seeks to find the translation strategies used in rendering ‘repetition’. To achieve this aim, a d...