Classically, in the discussion relating to polar opposites1, one primarily directs his interest to the common and lexicalized concepts, i.e. for which there exists a corresponding word in the vocabulary inherent to a given language. This way of proceeding tends to generate several disadvantages. One of them resides in the fact (i) that such concepts are likely to vary from one language to anoth...

This article examines a corpus of selected Italian translations Gilbert Shelton's underground comic strip The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers (initially collected in 13 issues by Rip Off Press, 1971–1997) using isotopies as key tool the analysis comics translation. After discussing role and potential applications (cf. Bertrand 2000; Greimas 1966b; Rastier 1972; Courtés 1979), we argue that act tr...

viability of verse is interrelated to its multiple layer nature and legibility. being affected by western poetry and criticism in the middle of 20th century, this trend entered arabic contemporary verse into a new stage and made it as a field for activity of national and international myths. badr shakir al- siab was one of premier innovative arabic poets that he has highly benefitted from myste...

Intimate relationships are often depicted in terms of a beautiful idealism, especially the mass media. However, evidence shows vast number women while such relationship have been subjected to physical, emotional, and/or sexual violence by their partner. Media plays an important part shaping and reflecting social life, resulting audience consumption romanticized abusive behaviour. Its audiovisua...

Any system designed to model or simulate narrative intelligence will have to take into account how stories encode mental representations of emergent spatial relationships between items in narrated worlds. Intelligent agents, for example, need to be able to use sequences of referring expressions as cues for making inferences about agents, places, and objects and about the dynamic relations betwe...