The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) Approach claims that there are some universalities in all languages. Speech acts seem to be present in all languages, but considering this approach, research has not indicated whether request speech act differs from one language to another. Thus, this study intended to investigate whether request strategies are used differently in English and Persian roma...

The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) Approach claims that there are some universalities in all languages. Speech acts seem to be present in all languages, but considering this approach, research has not indicated whether request speech act differs from one language to another. Thus, this study intended to investigate whether request strategies are used differently in English and Persian roma...

To cite: Iqbal K. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2014;40:300–302. INTRODUCTION Romance novels are defined broadly as fiction focused on a central love story, which is concluded in an emotionally satisfying and optimistic manner. Romance is one of the most popular genres, accounting for the largest market share in fiction. In 2009, romantic fiction generated approximately $1.4 billion in the USA...

Title of Document: ROMANCE, RACE AND RESISTANCE IN BEST-SELLING AFRICAN AMERICAN NARRATIVE Robin Virginia Smiles, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Mary Helen Washington, Department of English This dissertation critically examines popular romantic fiction by African American writers and argues for its inclusion in the canons and curricula of African American literary studies. Wh...

This paper proposes an examination of recent (published since the late 1960s) editions of nineteenth-century Brazilian and Spanish American novels with a considerable component of romanticism. It focuses upon the way in which editors, translators, preface-writers, and especially illustrators, seek to communicate to current-day readers the significance and worth of novels written under the sway ...


 Marcel Proust’s novels certify kitsch by the presence of architecture, theater and fashion. The writer produced his works using textual accumulation hybridization. These two processes call for other arts in romantic production. From this point view, baroque, gothic modern architectures are represented texts through buildings tested rhetorical descriptions. Images opera scenes accentuate ...

The Author and the Magi: Magic in the Ancient Novel and its Implications for Readership What argues most strongly for the recognition of the ancient " novel " as part of the novel genre in its proper sense is its familiarity. These texts, picaresque, romantic, concise and designed to thrill, offer no generic convention unfamiliar to us from the modern novels of western Europe—the improbable esc...

In her article "Science, Sexuality, and the Novels of Huxley and Houellebecq," Angela C. Holzer begins with an introduction to recent discourse about contemporary culture by Francis Fukuyama, notably in his book Our Posthuman Future (2001). Next, Holzer introduces twentiethcentury literary representations of genetic engineering. Focusing on Huxley's Brave New World (1932) and on Houellebecq's L...

Orient and oriented character with the rare features and brilliant beauty attract the romantic writers. This attractiveness becomes more widespread in the works of creators of Russian historical novels particularly in long story “Sins by whom?“. This work has integrated in it several conflicting objectives. Attempting to depict realistic image in the work with the evident tension to...