skopos theory ,as a functionalist approach, has made a notable switch from a lingusitic oriented to a more sociocultural concept of translation. initially proposed by vermeer, skopos theory framework has been applied by several researchers in their attempts to defend translators’ dignity and social status. yet; as far as the authors are concerned, no researcher has ever employed sociological th...

Nigel Lowther Love is associate professor of linguistics at University of Cape Town. He was born in 1950 in the U.K. He received his B.A. (1973), M.A. (1976) and D. Phil. (1976) from Oxford University. His Ph.D. thesis title was: The generative phonological analysis of non-vocalic alternations in Modern French. Nigel Love has been the invited lecturer or conference speaker at universities in: A...

Abstract This author introduces the concept of Stepwise Strategy Approach (SSA) for dealing with a number of problems arises in the current age of technology. This new idea is combined with the knowledge of Grey Theory for adding flexibility to decision making process. Grey theory is useful for grasping the ambiguity exists in the utilized information and the fuzziness appears in the human judg...

This paper is a chronological survey, with no proofs, of a direction in categorical algebra, which is based on categorical Galois theory and involves generalized central extensions, commutators, and internal groupoids in Barr exact Mal’tsev and more general categories. Galois theory proposes a notion of central extension, and motivates the study of internal groupoids, which is then used as an a...

although the majority of the scholars of the arabic prosody share the belief that mutadärik meter was devised and added to the khalili's fifteen meters by akhfash owsat, historical and structural investigations show that this meter can not be his innovation. this article also attempts to introduce the real innovator of mutadärik meter, whom the author of this article believes to be ibn h...