This article presents a tripartite framework for analyzing multimodal texts. The three analytical perspectives presented include: (1) perceptual, (2) structural, and (3) ideological analytical processes. Using Anthony Browne’s picturebook Piggybook as an example, assertions are made regarding what each analytical perspective brings to the interpretation of multimodal texts and how these perspec...

this kind of marriage (mir) is one of the controversial issues of pre-islamic iran. some have attributed it to all iranians while others have attributed it to a certain group in ancient iran. undoubtedly mir has never been specific to iran and similar typical examples can be found in other cultures and religions. this paper after presenting the history of mir looks at firdausi’s shahnameh that ...

Both ancient and modern apocrypha have already been widely discussed in various fields of academic research, for example religious, biblical or literary studies. Although such analyses say much about the historical religious background apocryphal writings enable us to discover depth symbolic resources used texts, they do not fully reveal cultural impact canon. That is why a broader analysis bot...

based on the theory of intertextuality, literary texts are in natural interaction with other texts before their time. the present study is an attempt to explain the relation between quran - as a religious literary text - with pre-islamic poetry. however the holy quran has a divine origin, but its language is a humane language and understandable to all people. thus, we see the vocabulary and str...

This study aimed to describe texts that discussing about the image of women in short story Kamboja di Atas Nisan karya Herman R.N by using a feminist literary criticism approach. The data are R.N. collected through reading and noting. They analysed qualitative descriptive technique with reference criticism. results research shows are: 1) women's rights education; 2) struggle mother; 3) Kamboja;...

The Doctrine of Final Cause, taken from Aristotle's "causes" and modified by Claudius (Aelius) Galen (of Pergamon) stated that for an anatomical part to exist it must have a "cause," not an end point, but a purpose or goal, natural or divine. This affected the renaissance anatomist's thinking. We explore this doctrine's relationship with human head and neck anatomy from antiquity's Aristotle an...

The Quran is a significant religious text written in a unique literary style, close to very poetic language in nature. Accordingly it is significantly richer and more complex than the newswire style used in the previously released Arabic PropBank (Zaghouani et al., 2010; Diab et al., 2008). We present preliminary work on the creation of a unique Arabic proposition repository for Quranic Arabic....