The present article addresses the typology of the approaches to the science of the interrelatedness of the qur’ānic chapters. To this end, this science has been bought under typological analyses from the viewpoints of the past and contemporary scholars. In the approaches of the past scholars, topics such as the narrative origins and the backgrounds of this science, the chainlike relationship be...

Narrative generation enables a range of opportunities for understanding the creative act of storytelling. Prior approaches have mostly converged on a pipeline model, wherein story structure is generated as a precursor to discourse structure, mapping individual story events to discourse elements. This model, however, unnecessarily limits narrative possibilities, which most prior work avoids by i...

this paper critically reviews studies that have interpretively invoked communication accommodation theory (cat) for the study of patient-provider interaction. cat’s sociolinguistic strategies—approximation, interpretability, interpersonal control, discourse management, and emotional expression—are succinctly introduced and their use in studies of patient-provider interaction discussed. the majo...

this bipartite paper examines the function of tasrif in the quranic story of creation in the light of halliday's textual meta-function. first, the quranic concept of tasrif as a field in elm-al maani (semantics of syntax), and its relation to systemic linguistics is introduced and reviewed. then, through review of literature, it is referred to givenness hierarchy, empathy degree, point of ...

This paper argues that narrative elements from the science fiction (SF) literary genre are used in the discourse of Nanoscience and Technology (NST) to bridge the gap between what is technically possible today and its inflated promises for the future. The argument is illustrated through a detailed discussion of two NST texts. The paper concludes by arguing that the use of SF narrative technique...

this article is an attempt to explore the subject of divorcee in narrative and visual content of iranian cinema. therefore, by applying constructionist approach in representation theory of stuart hall as the main theoretical framework and using roland barthes’ structural analysis of narrative and john fiske’s semiotic analysis in three levels of reality codes, representation and ideology, ester...

Music is not an only accompaniment for narratives. It is also a representation medium of narratives. The theme of this paper is proposing a methodology of automatic generation of music as representation medium. First, we describe a system which automatically generates melody lines from a backing based on the constraint of chord and musical knowledge. We regard this as a system based on the harm...