this study focused on the role of appropriate equivalence selection of colors in the field of advanced pranic healing (aph), based on mona baker’s equivalence, both at word level and above word level. the partici- pants included 40 bachelor’s students studying in the field of english translation. participants received the colors’ translation test (ctt) included in the book “advanced pranic heal...

conclusions the findings of this study indicate that older children are more proficient in comprehension of color words compared to younger children, and girls are more proficient than boys. the two easiest and two most difficult color words for children to comprehend within the 3 age groups were “black” and “red” and “phosphoric-green” and “turquoise-blue,” respectively. there was a positive r...

the study aims at investigating the investigating the interrogative style of poet ibrahim al-makadmeh, who died in 2003. such investigation adopt the scientific and statistical approach which aims at specifying the different patterns of every question word andoutlining the syntactic fatures characterizing thepoets style. the study comprises the numder and percentages of style occrance of each q...

there are different processes to form new words in every language, including compounding, derivation, inflection, etc. in compounding, two lexical stems form a compound. in derivation and inflection, new words are coined by affixation or some phonetic changes. this kind of affixation is applied on the simple or compound stem. here our compound stem is a bound compound stem, consisting of a noun...

Background: Co- word analysis is one of the content analysis methods used in scientometric studies and mapping the scientific structure of various fields. The purpose of the present research is to map the structure of distance education using the co-word analysis. Methods: The research method is content analysis using co- word analysis. The research population are 31607 documents indexed in the...

 Lexicalization-patterns, the way words are mapped onto concepts, differ from one language      to another. This study investigated the influence of first language (L1) lexicalization patterns on the processing of second language (L2) words in sentential contexts by both less proficient and more proficient Persian learners of English. The focus was on cases where two different senses of a polys...

â arabic seems to have borrowed the word amen ( אö¸×žöµ×Ÿ ) originally from hebrew and used it as a religious term in islamic discourse the same as jewish. although it has a clear meaning in hebrew, there is no explicit meaning for it in arabic dictionaries and sources. at the same time, some hebrew hypotheses about this word have had an effect on the comprehension of the arab philologists and...