Construal Level Theory (CLT; Trope & Liberman, 2003) proposes that pro-arguments (pros) constitute high-level construals and counter-arguments (cons) low-level construals. Therefore, pros are more salient for distant-future actions than are cons and the reverse holds for near-future actions (Eyal, Liberman, Trope, & Walther, 2004). We further predicted and results from one experiment show that ...

In India, where religion-specific laws govern issues of marriage, divorce, maintenance, adoption and inheritance, the family Muslims – largest religious minority have been a thorny issue in post-independence period. recent years, major intervention Muslim personal law reform came form invalidation instant divorce or triple talaq by Supreme Court India. Subsequently, was passed that criminalised...

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irony is considered as a rhetorical device that is used more frequently than trope and metaphor. consequently, in spite of all their disagreements in defining irony varieties over centuries, rhetoricians have made significant efforts and have left some conspicuous works about it. al-kashāf al-zamakhshari commentary is the most well-known source of rhetorical interpretation that is referred to i...

The research purpose is examining the poems in Turkish textbooks for 1st–8th grade terms of figurative language usage. data source used this qualitative study was gathered from which published 2015–2016. were collected through document analysis and analysed via content analysis. It revealed by that mostly simile least metonyms metaphors have been 1st–4th-grade poems. In included 5th–6th-grade c...