Arabic Literature

Analysis of the speech of Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah's Battle of Al-Aqsa storm Based on Leslie Jeffries' approach of confrontation and synonymy

Rahman Navazani; Ruhollh Sayadinejad

Volume 17, Issue 1 , January 2025, , Pages 23-43

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2024.370018.612773

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Linguistic processes are always involved in creating a kind of narrative of the world in order to create discourse categories with views based on worldview. Linguistic processes of ... Read More

Analysis of the Critical Discourse of the Novel (The Second Dog War) by Ebrahim Nasrallah

rahman navazani; Ruhollah Sayadi; Amir Hhossei Rasoulnia

Volume 16, Issue 4 , September 2024, , Pages 117-138

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2023.365918.612737

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Discourse, as an efficient linguistic process, is one of the most widely used tools used by the domination system to achieve social-political goals, whether in the form of speech or ... Read More

Sound Symbolism Continuum in Nizar Qabbaniˈs Poetry; Based on Hintonˈs Theory

Shahla Shakibaee far; Roho allah Saiiadi nejad

Volume 14, Issue 1 , May 2022, , Pages 87-108

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2021.315419.612322

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Iconicity which represents the aroused link between a significance and a signifier, considers the language structure influenced by human's emotional perception from the outside world ... Read More Iconicity which represents the aroused link between a significance and a signifier, considers the language structure influenced by human's emotional perception from the outside world as a metalanguage factor. This principle is considering the sign of a cognition from the most important beautification elements and the most main tools of transmission of meaning in Nizar Qabbani's poem. In this regard, the present research is accomplished aiming to be characterized different levels of phonetic arousal in the poet's poems on an appendix from the highest to the lowest degree of clarity in the framework of phonetic symbolism theory by Hinton & et, al.The analysis of Qabbani poems based on the continuum proposed by Hinton and his colleagues is important because by relying on this method in an objective and coherent way and based on modern scientific principles, we can examine the phonetic significance of signs and determine their degrees of arusal. Explained the linguistic forms with their examples in real world; therefore, in the present stydy, we try to examine different types of arusal from the highest to the lowest degree of clarity in Qabbani poems according to Hintonˈs phonetic symbolism pattern and answer these qustions. Be: what are the types of principal signs in Nizar Qabbaniˈs poem? Can signs be placed on a continuum from the ultimate arusal to the ultimate symbolism? Dose the imagery of Qabbaniˈs signs and poetry contradict the principle of optional words? The research results represent that different kinds of phonetic symbolism in Qabbani's poem are: objective, imitative, combinational and conventional. The objective signs in the poet's poems include emotional sounds and expressions of interjection, surprise and ... contain the most level of iconicity. Then, sequentially, imitative symbols in the form of words, onomatopoeia, combinational signs which are observed in the form of vowel repetition or special correspondency, and conventional symbols which are formed with sequence of certain phonemes, are ranked in second, third and fourth position of the continuum.

Discourse Analysis of the Tenth Letter of Nahj al-Balagha Based on Norman Fairclough’s Pattern

Abdolhossein Zokaei; Roohollah Sayadinejad; Abbas Eghbali

Volume 12, Issue 2 , July 2020, , Pages 63-83

https://doi.org/10.22059/jalit.2019.257787.611906

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Critical discourse analysis, as a modern interdisciplinary approach, attempts to read the text beyond words, sentences, and the text itself. It deems the context necessary to understand ... Read More Critical discourse analysis, as a modern interdisciplinary approach, attempts to read the text beyond words, sentences, and the text itself. It deems the context necessary to understand the semantics of a text from a critical point of view. Its aim is to clarify the structures of power, domination, and political, social, and cultural inequalities. These structures are criticized through rhetoric, syntax, pragmatics, and intertextuality. This paper adopts a descriptive-analytical method to examine the tenth letter of Nahj al-Balagha,which is addressed to Muawiyah, based on Norman Fairclough’s critical discourse pattern. This model, theorized in the book Language and Power, redefines asymmetrical social relations. It considers three layers for discourse analysis: description, interpretation, and explanation. In Fairclough’s opinion, the social action is shaped by the interaction of these layers. This essay, on the layer of description, studies the text from a formalistic point of view. On the layer of interpretation, it deals with the interaction of text and its context, and explores the elements of power and ideology. It is noteworthy that these elements are reflected in the use of pronouns. The pronoun I, for instance, indicates professional and social responsibility while the pronoun you indicates the differences between Imam Ali’s personality and that of his counterparts, namely the Umayyads. The letter mentions the same motives that troubled the Islamic society from the first battle to the Battle of Siffin. Critical discourse analysis reveals the ideological differences between Imam Ali and the Umayyads reflected in its use of elements such as metaphors and pronouns. Furthermore, the article tries to demonstrate that in this letter, the purpose of Imam Ali as the religious and legitimate ruler of the Islamic world was to disrupt the domination and inequality in the structure of tribalism of the Umayyad Caliphate, for otherwise Muslims would face grave difficulties.

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Analysis of the speech of Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah's Battle of Al-Aqsa storm Based on Leslie Jeffries' approach of confrontation and synonymy

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Analysis of the Critical Discourse of the Novel (The Second Dog War) by Ebrahim Nasrallah

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Sound Symbolism Continuum in Nizar Qabbaniˈs Poetry; Based on Hintonˈs Theory

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Discourse Analysis of the Tenth Letter of Nahj al-Balagha Based on Norman Fairclough’s Pattern

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