There are some different viewpoints on the verse 41 in chapter Anfal of the Holy Quran that it is necessary to have one fifth of spoil to different incomes. The main reasons for these different viewpoints are the interest meaning of ‘spoil’. Not only referring to dictionaries, but also linguistic principles have not an effect on determine the meaning of ‘spoil’ in (8: 41...

meaning is both the reference and the content and their concomitant mental associations. the current research aims to find the meaning of home and its constituents in the everyday life of house residents. in this perspective, we seek to investigate this meaning-making processes through exploring the represented houses in four iranian movies in tehran. therefore, “freeway”, “sealed secret”, “sa’...

spiritual needs of human beings to look at the world and life meaningfully and escape from meaninglessness, and to look at religion as a factor that provides meaning to life, have opened a new horizon in the direction of understanding of religion and produced “meaning approach” in religious. by presenting a new interpretation of human being, religion and their relationship, this approach emphas...

Viktor Frankl, a neurologist and the founder of logo-therapy (1969) stated that “will to meaning” is the basic essence of the universe (1). Logo-therapy means therapy through meaning, which is based on the premise that man has a will-to-meaning; the meaning thus lies in suffering(2). One of the most important human functions is discovering meaning in life, which is also considered as a sign of...

artworks are different in terms of creation, application, function, interpretation and finally meaning. sometimes, we don’t know the meaning of a picture or a literal text. human perceptual media and cognitive faculties are confused. the understanding of artworks is difficult. the ready-mades have disrupted the rules of the aesthetic judgment. the recognition of art from non-art is not the work...

Abstract Is conceptual engineering feasible? Answering that question requires a theory of semantic change, which is sometimes thought elusive. Fortunately, much known about change as it occurs in the wild. While usage chaotic and complex, changes word’s use can produce its meaning. There are several under-appreciated empirical constraints on how meanings stem from following observation: word fi...

ambiguity, as one of the aesthetic tricks or techniques, makes the speech seem attractive, and the reader surprised. it looks pleasurable when its delay for accepting the meaning and its role in creating different meaning layers of speech is discovered. fifteen cases of ambiguity which results in development of the words’ meaning circle on the axis of companion, have been explained in present s...