The present study tries to investigate linguistically optimism in English and Arabic religious discourses. language of discourse is rich be examined by the researchers. Optimism carried out different pragmatic aspects. aims at identifying various strategies which conveyed through eclectic model adopted analyse data. It consists Searle’s (1969) speech act theory, Grice’s (1975) conversational im...

Religious text scholarship explores the meaning of passages and uses critical/rhetorical research methods. In contrast, automated tools that perform shallower but broader quantitative analysis have been created. These tools process entire books and help illuminate relationships between religious texts. We have automatically extracted and categorized noun and verb phrases from nine religious tex...

In ‘secular’ Western societies, religious topics permeate media texts of books, films, series and games and such texts even inform several religious-spiritual movements. Critically expanding on theories about ‘fiction-based religion’, ‘invented religion’ or ‘hyper-real religion’, this article studies if, how and why players of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of...

the main purpose of this research is to explain the elements and characteristics of religious education curriculum based on the task-oriented approach. to achieve this purpose, frankena`s model for analyzing a normative philosophy; deductive method was used. based on the results, the task-oriented the ultimate goal of religious education and then ten target interface for religious education wer...

The paper presents two techniques for lemmatization of Polish person names. First, we apply a rule-based approach which relies on linguistic information and heuristics. Then, we investigate an alternative knowledge-poor method which employs string distance measures. We provide an evaluation of the adopted techniques using a set of newspaper texts.

The heavenly ascent motif is common in religious documents of late antiquity. A preoccupation with the similarities between these accounts leads some to overlook the equally important differences. Care should be taken, however, to distinguish between mystical esotericism and extraordinary religious encounter. Earlier Jewish traditions provide the proper context for understanding Paul's visions ...