Research Journal of Human and Social Aspects

Research Journal of Human and Social Aspects

Verses of Regret in the Holy Quran; A Grammatical and Semantic Study

This study: “Verses of Regret in the Holy Qur’an: A Grammatical and Semantic Study” investigates the structures, vocabulary, and stylistic devices associated with regret in the Qur’an through a descriptive-analytical and inductive approach. It analyzes the grammatical constructions and semantic implications of regret,...

On the Development of Adversative BUT in Thai: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives

The notion of ‘contrast’ is among the human perceptual and conceptual primitives since human perception relies on contrast-based categorization (Taylor, 1995, 1989). Disjunctives constitute a grammatical category signaling contrast, and adversative exponents tend to develop into discourse markers (DMs), signaling diver...

Os “fantasmas da verdade”

This article analyzes the constitution of the enunciative subject and the polyphonic management of responsibility, examining how points of view (POV) are staged in discourse. Situated within the framework of Integrated Discourse Analysis (IDA) and building on Ducrot's polyphonic theory, Berrendonner's linguistic pragma...

The Significance of Personal Deictics in the Arabic Language

This study rigorously examines the significance of personal deictics in Arabic from an integrated semantic–pragmatic perspective, using Ziyārat Wārith as an analytical case study. It proceeds from the central hypothesis that personal deictics—particularly pronouns and vocative forms—extend far beyond a merely neutral r...

A Discourse Study of Dickens’s Nobody’s Story

The framework that the researcher operates with in this study synergises narratology, critical discourse analysis, a naming-in-discourse-historical approach, and Stylistics to critique Nobody's Story (1854) by Charles Dickens. An analytical study specifically concerning Dickens' use of narrative voice and name-words, t...