This research is entitled Advice in the Book of Ayyuhal Walad by Imam Al-Ghazzali (Julia Kristeva Intertextual Semiotics Study). The a literary work form treatise, namely letter containing advice given to his students related science and charity. aims this study are: 1. To find out what texts are referred text book Al-Ghazzali. 2. Understanding relationship walad with reference text. 3. Describ...

How to measure proximities and oppositions in large text corpora? Intertextual distance provides a simple and interesting solution. Its properties make it a good tool for text classification, and especially for tree-analysis which is fully presented and discussed here. In order to measure the quality of this classification, two indices are proposed. The method presented provides an accurate too...

Truth claims in political discourse are implicated in a dialogic process whereby political actors "assimilate, rework, and re-accentuate" prior discourse (Bakhtin 1986:89). While political actors themselves may view truth as an object to be discovered, I argue that discourse analysts are best served by viewing truth as an emergent property of this dialogic process. In this paper, I examine how ...