the present study was carried on to investigate the use of face-keeping strategies in reaction to complaints by male and female in two different cultures, persian and american english. to see if apology strategies are affected by cultural, contextual preferences and gender of interlocutors in two distinct languages of persian and american english. the hypotheses to be tested were 1) ifids, acce...

The right to practice religion is one of the fundamental issues in the present age. The interpretation of some verses, especially the holy verse "La Akrah fi al-Din ..." leads us to believe that from the perspective of the Holy Quran, the right to practice religion is one of the basic human rights. The present study showed that God did not deny the acceptance of religion and created man for fr...

One of the common views in contemporary Quranic research is the dialog on the existence of allegory and symbolic language in the Quran and Quranic stories. Citing such arguments as the common literary style between the Quranic stories and human stories, the use of symbols with specific modes of expression in the Quran and the cases in which the Divine intent is expressed through questions and a...

as some definitions show, idioms are expressions whose meanings cannot be obtained from individual words. in every society, people use their own conceptions and feelings through different idioms and expressions. so every culture and society has their own idioms. some scholars proposed methods for translating idioms but baker’s strategies are very important and constructive. this research tried ...

Human honour is one of the principal categories of the contemporary thought. After semantic analysis of human honour in the meaning system of holy Quran, the paper attempts to deal with the verses which are related to the results and requirements of human honour in Quranic discourse and also to achieve the mentioned requirements from the perspective of various verses about it. Regarding the res...