A cognitive semantic study of comforting in English and Arabic religious texts
Joint Authors
Hamid, Husayn
Abd Allah, Widad Ayid
Source
Issue
Vol. 14, Issue 1 (31 Mar. 2023), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
University of Babylon College of Education for Human Sciences
Publication Date
2023-03-31
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This study presents a cognitive semantic analysis of the comforting in English and Arabic religious texts on meaning construction in selected English and Arabic religious texts.
the main questions that the study tries to answer are related to the functions of comforting expressions in religious texts, to the similarities and differences in interpreting comforting expressions involved in Quranic verses and the bible .
the study aims at identifying the functions of the comforting expressions and identifying the religious texts that has more comforting expressions that are found in English and Arabic religious texts, providing an adequate knowledge for the comforting expressions based on both cognitive and semantic perspectives that appears in religious texts.
offering how religious texts can cognitively and semantically illustrate different perspectives to human beings through comforting expressions.
explaining different strategies utilized in interpreting the comforting expressions that are found in religious texts.
in addition, the study examines the universality of conceptual metaphor theory and the shared and culture specific conceptual metaphors in the comforting expressions under study.
the study hypothesizes that Holy Quran has more comforting expressions than biblical texts.
most of English and Arabic religious texts can cognitively and semantically discuss various perspectives to man based on comforting expressions.different strategies of comforting expressions can be found in most of religious texts.
the study also hypothesizes the significant role played by grammatical structures in understanding comforting by determining the kind of the conceptual integration network .
to achieve the aims of the study and verify its hypotheses, a model based on the conceptual integration theory and conceptual metaphor theory has been adopted to analyze a sample of selected English and Arabic religious texts .
the selected sample consists of 2 English religious texts and 2 Arabic religious texts.
in both types of data, linguistic devices are resorted to when approaching religious texts in respect to the descriptive persuasive strategies.
the macrostructures whereby comforting is included can be different between..English and Arabic religious contexts due to the religious differences between these two types of data.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Hamid, Husayn& Abd Allah, Widad Ayid. 2023. A cognitive semantic study of comforting in English and Arabic religious texts. Journal of Human Sciences،Vol. 14, no. 1, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1492998
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Hamid, Husayn& Abd Allah, Widad Ayid. A cognitive semantic study of comforting in English and Arabic religious texts. Journal of Human Sciences Vol. 14, no. 1 (Mar. 2023), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1492998
American Medical Association (AMA)
Hamid, Husayn& Abd Allah, Widad Ayid. A cognitive semantic study of comforting in English and Arabic religious texts. Journal of Human Sciences. 2023. Vol. 14, no. 1, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1492998
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 9-11.
Record ID
BIM-1492998