ஆய்வுச் சுருக்கம் திராவிட மொழிக் குடும்பத்தைச் சேர்ந்த தமிழ் மற்றும் செமித்திய அரபு ஆகிய மொழிகளில் காணப்படும் ஆகுபெயர் இலக்கண விதிகளை இவ்வாய்வு ஒப்பிட்டு ஆராய்கின்றது. ஆகு பெயர் எனப்படுவது ஒன்றினது இயற்பெயர் அதனோடு தொடர்புடைய வேறொன்றுக்கு ஆகிவருவதாகும். இக்கருத்தியலை மொழியானது மஜாஸ் என்ற பிரயோகத்தால் அறிமுகப்படுத்துகின்றது. இவ்விரு மொழிகளிலும் ஆகுபெயரை அவற்றுக்கிடையிலான ஒற்றுமை வேற்றுமைகளைக் கண்டறிந்துள்ளது வகையில், இந்த ஆய்வானது குறித்த தலைப்பு ரீதிய...

The value of bodily affliction as a means for integrating an active life good works on earth with the contemplative values heaven, prior to return Christ and world's end, remains relatively unexplored, despite suffering saints being common medieval trope. Using work Gregory Great Venerable Bede, this article seeks explore interrelation shed light upon Bede's use his presentation Cuthbert's epis...

Complaining women overheard in conversation was a trope deployed Renaissance literature to criticize public figures and hold them account. This essay discusses why, with what effect, an anonymous author used female persona known readers of the popular sixteenth-century satirist Robert Sempill order comment on political crisis generated Scotland by demonstrations against imposition Prayer Book 1...

of Business, University of Southern California (e-mail: ulkumen@marshall. usc.edu). Amitav Chakravarti is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), and Vicki G. Morwitz is Research Professor of Marketing (e-mail: [email protected]), Stern School of Business, NewYork University. The authors contributed equally to this article. The authors thank the two anonymous JMR...

In her paper, "Chinese Feminisms and Adaptation-as-Translation Readings of Letter from an Unknown Woman," Jinhua Li investigates the complex cultural and political issues engendered by an increasingly popular phenomenon of transnational film adaptations. Through a comparative reading of Jinglei Xu's 2004 adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novella Brief einer Unbekannten (Letter From an Unknown Woman)...

Eyal, T., Liberman, N., & Trope, Y., (2008). Judging near and distant virtue and vice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1204–1209, explored how psychological distance influences moral judgment and found that more extreme moral appraisals were given to distal behaviors rather than proximal behaviors. Contrary to Eyal et al., the current paper presents converging evidence showing th...

Death has always held a morbid fascination for humans. Indeed, awareness of one’s own mortality may well be one of the defining features of the ‘human condition’ – symbols of death appearing in most civilizations since artefacts have been made. The Latin phrase memento mori, meaning literally ‘remember to die’, encapsulates a rich and varied artistic tradition, dating back to the Middle Ages, o...

The trope of the "body politic" is reproduced in a Bengali popular court, or moot, not only through explicit submetaphors of that master metaphor but through a grammatical example of what Peirce called diagrammatic iconism. The iconism of reduplicated verbs with reciprocal meaning became pivotal in the metacommunicative negotiation of the agenda of a rural Bangladeshi moot. Such forms of iconic...

In this article the author examines the uses of satire and its rhetorical devices, sarcasm and irony, in social research, analysing published research papers as well as drawing on her own autoethnographic data. In particular, she focuses on texts concerning discourses within the academy and the current predicament of the academic, each of which sets out to expose an aspect of the workings of po...