One of the subjects of contemporary literary criticism is the intertextuality (Altanas) phenomenonthat generally means taking advantage of an earlier or contemporary text in speech. The poems of Maroof Abdul Majid, the contemporary Shiite Egyptianpoet,are distinguished for this feature. Among existing intertextualities in his poetry, Quranic intertextuality has allocated a considerable proporti...

since esp received universal attention to smooth the path for academic studies and productions, a great deal of research and studies have been directed towards this area. swales’ (1990) model of ra introduction move analysis has served a pioneering role of guiding many relevant studies and has proven to be productive in terms of helpful guidelines that are the outcome of voluminous productions ...

in his last years of life americans had almost forgotton steinbeck, and those who had not, occasionally criticized him for supporting and praising the u. s. military intervention in the vietnam war. althought ateinbeck incorporates different themes into his works, each one bears many signs of his concern and sympathy for america and the american common people in particular. steinbecks to a god ...

this study investigates the problem of translating religious allusions in persian literature, namely the ones borrowed from quranic verses and hadiths. the purpose of this study is to shed light on how different translators dealt with such a task and also to provide guidelines for translators in coping with religious allusions.

abstract: the present study is an attempt to find out cultural exophoric references in iranian high-school elt textbooks and touch stone series to compare the frequency of occurrence of such references in these books. the purpose is to find out which of the series of the books under investigation impose a greater referential burden on efl learners as far as their reading comprehension of the ...

“Ta’liqeh Sajjadiyyeh fi Sharheh Man Layahzaro al-Faqih” is a concise description written by Molla Morad Ali Khan Tafreshi on “Man Layahzaro al-Faqih”. Using the descriptive-analytic method, the present article seeks to examine the author's method in explaining and describing the hadiths as well as to find out his major approach in explaining the narrations of “Man Layahzaro al-Faqih”. The resu...

this study investigates the cohesive devices used in the textbook of english for the students of psychology. the research questions and hypotheses in the present study are based on what frequency and distribution of grammatical and lexical cohesive devices are. then, to answer the questions all grammatical and lexical cohesive devices in reading comprehension passages from 6 units of 21units th...

The divine vicegerency is one of the deepest scientific and epistemic debates in the divine and human sciences and the role of divine mysticism in this field is crucial. There are two fundamental arguments in Islamic mysticism: the first is about monotheism or divinity and according to the verse «علم آدم اسماء کلها», the subject of this argument is divine lordship and His names and attributes, ...