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Alhaj, Ali Albashir Mohammed – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2020
The current study aims at exploring some syntactic and semantic underlying problems in three English translations of the meanings of Surat Quraish; that is in English translations of AbdelHaleem, Khan and Mohammed Taj Al-Din Al-Hilai and Pickthall. Also, the study aims at probing how the three translators deal with some syntactic and semantic…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, English (Second Language), Translation
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Santosa, Rochmat Budi; Nurkamto, Joko; Baidan, Nashruddin; Sumarlam – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This study aims at describing the directive speech acts in the verses that contain the stories in the Qur'an. Specifically, the objectives of this study are to assess the sub directive speech acts contained in the verses of the stories and the dominant directive speech acts. The research target is the verses ("ayat") containing stories…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Speech Acts, Islam, Religious Education
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El-Nashar, Mohamed; Nayef, Heba – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper investigates graffiti drawn on vehicles in Egypt as an expression of their authors' social values, religious ideologies and political affiliations. Little research has been done in Egypt on these meaning-loaded messages. This paper gives further evidence that graffiti are a very powerful mode of expression for groups that feel…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Affiliation, Ideology, Social Values