Backshift is a phenomenon affecting verb tense that is visible as a mismatch between some specific embedded contexts and other environments. For instance, the indirect speech equivalent of a sentence like Kim likes reading, with a present tense verb, may show the same verb in a past tense form, as in Sandy said Kim liked reading. We present a general analysis of backshift, pooling data from Eng...

This study aims to analyze the Quranic similes in Parts Twenty-ninth and Thirty of Holy Quran as they contain 48 Surah from a total 114 Surah, with percentage 42%. They are Makkan except for four them (Surah Al-Insan, Al-Bayyina, Al-Zalzala, An-Nasr(. The consists two topics; first one addressed theoretical aspects term, importance simile its role clarifying intended meaning. second topic appli...

in a speech community, people utilize their communicative competence which they have acquired from their society as part of their distinctive sociolinguistic identity. they negotiate and share meanings, because they have commonsense knowledge about the world, and have universal practical reasoning. their commonsense knowledge is embodied in their language. thus, not only does social life depend...

This paper puts forward the mapping inheritance hypothesis which states that the ultimate goal of mapping is to inherit the attributes of source domains by comparing structures ‘as A as Y’(像 Y 一样 A)and 'n n/n+n'. Furthermore, we have built a knowledge base for simile and explored the distribution of source domain and its attribute hierarchy. The study shows that the number of S domain words in ...

Reproduction of Criconernoides simile, Paratylenchus projectus, and Helicotylenchus pseudorobustus, alone and in certain combinations, was characterized during 50 days on the soybean cultivars Custer and Hood. Custer was the more suitable host for all three nematodes and C. simile was the most vigorous parasite on both cultivars. C. simile and H. pseudorobustus reproduced as well in combination...

Hollywood likes science. Or, to put that more precisely, Hollywood likes to sound as if it likes science. Consequently, what Hollywood really likes are scientific buzzwords words that sound technical and important so that they impress the audience. In the realm of buzzwords, it is hard to think of any more prominent or more fitting of the description than the words “quantum” and “chaos”. Behind...

This study examines the sociopragmatics of animal and supernatural creatures’ names in Yemeni Arabic (YA) their translation into English. The aims to identify most effective English translations these metaphors by sending a questionnaire 43 native speakers (NESs), focusing on Target Language similes (TL) using Abdul-Raof’s (2006) framework classify similes. findings indicate that YA dialects us...

simile is the most important principle of rhetorical figures that other principles such as metaphor, metonymyandallusion are caused by it. in this study, different types of imagery have been evaluated, classified, and compared with each other in veis and ramin, and khosrow and shirin from the various common aspects such as analogies, metaphors, similes, emotionality or rationality, simplicity o...