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Widely acknowledged as one of the best narratives that depict the atrocities of 9/11 in America, Updike's Terrorist has been tackled as the magnum opus that embodies cultural hegemony, the life of Muslim Americans as an ethnic minority in America, and how they interact with the forms of oppression practiced against them. A scrutinizing look, however, at the text in terms of being a discursive formation initiates a process of a textual analysis that transcends the binary oppositions of the oppressor and the oppressed, the dominant culture and the marginalized one, and casts light on the epistemic fabric that shapes the linguistic input of the text. The aim of the present paper is to explore the hidden enunciative function that endows different signs with all their possible interpretations, and that ultimately determines how discursive analysis to be carried out in the research points out how the experience of terrorism, and the sophisticated process of identity formation should be deterritorialized. Interacting within the space of the text, terrorism as a political and a human phenomenon, and identity formation as a highly complex and incessant process, feed the discourses of politics, history, and religion, and are mutually determined by them. The research explores, with no a priori assumptions, the interstitial space in which terrorism, identity formation, and the discourses of history, politics, and religion interact and overlap. It also makes use of new historicism as the critical approach that envelopes the argument presented, and that can. due to its revolutionary assumptions, reveal how politics, religion, and history function as negative dialectics in a way that allows the reader to reason phenomena without being victimized by fixed points of reference, reductionist binary oppositions, or ambiguous elementary propositions.

كشفت الدراسة عن دور الخطاب الديني المرئي في مواجهة تطرف الشباب. عرضت الدراسة إطارا مفاهيميا تضمن تعريف الخطاب لغويا، تعريف الخطاب اصطلاحا، تعريف الخطاب الديني الإسلامي، تعريف الخطاب الإسلامي المرئي إجرائيا، تعريف التطرف، التعريف اللغوي، تعريف التطرف الفكري أجرائيا. اعتمد البحث على منهج المسح الاجتماعي، تحليل المضمون. وتمثلت الأدوات في أداة الاستبيان. وجاءت العينة من (3) برامج دينية، بإجمالي (91) حلقة، برنامج خواطر (11) بعدد (30) حلقه، برنامج إنسان جديد بعدد (29) حلقة، برنامج فكر بعدد (31) حلقة. واختتمت الدراسة بالنتائج التي أوضحت أن الطلاب يرون أن نوعية القيم التي يناقشها الخطاب الديني بالقنوات الفضائية الإسلامية هي القيم الدينية، والاجتماعية. وأكدت التوصيات على ضبط الخطاب الديني وتفعيل دور الأئمة في طرح ما يخدم قضايا الشباب المعاصرة، ودعوة المؤسسات والمراكز البحثية لاجراء الدراسات الميدانية. كُتب هذا المستخلص من قِبل المنظومة 2023

The study examines language use in prophetic movements' advertisements in Harare, Zimbabwe. Specifically, the research establishes and explains the significance of linguistic strategies which were used by Prophetic Movements in Harare, Zimbabwe. The purpose of the study is to demonstrate that language use in this context is an act of cognitive manipulation where the reader is strategically coerced to take up the message. The study is a qualitative research enterprise and it used document analysis as the method of data collection. The study was informed by Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by Fairclough (2003). The study established that Prophetic Movements employ code-switching and mixing, slang, interrogatives, imperatives, salutations and personal pronouns to lure potential congregants. The use of these linguistic strategies is motivated by the need to persuade congregants to attend the events being advertised. The use of linguistic strategies is determined by situational factors such as the need to market in order to withstand competition from other Prophetic Movements.

This paper is concerned with the pragmatic functions of slangy utterances used by Husseini preachers in the Iraqi context. Husseini preachers are religious and social reformers who use the Husseini issue as a foundation to their reformation. Slang is employed by such Husseini preachers in theirs lectures and sermons which are characterized by a highly formal context. Theoretical literature about pragmatics of slang is given. Afterwards, the pragmatic ends are investigated in a considerable number of lectures for various preachers. The most frequented slangy utterances used by Husseini preachers are selected and put in a questionnaire in accordance with a model adopted and selected for the objectives of the paper. In analyzing the data taken from the lecturers, sermons and the questionnaire, significant pragmatic functions are found that are related to the Iraqi society and the pragmatic strategies under the pragmatic principles, in addition to a pragmatic model which is peculiar to the Husseini context.

تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف على قضايا الخطاب الديني الإسلامي وأهدافه في الصحافة الأردنية اليومية، واستخدم الباحث لتحقيق هذه الغاية المنهج الوصفي، حيث أجريت الدراسة في إطار منهج المسح بالعينة للخطاب الديني الإسلامي المنشور بالصحف الأردنية اليومية وهي (الرأي-الدستور-الغد) والذي تتضمنه الصفحة الدينية التي تصدر بصورة أسبوعية (كل يوم جمعة)، وكانت أداة الدراسة هي تحليل المضمون. ومن النتائج التي تم التوصل إليها: اولاً: وجود تباين واضح في نسب القضايا المنشورة، مما يعطي انطباعاً بعدم وجود استراتيجية ناظمة لعملية النشر الصحفي لقضايا الخطاب الديني الإسلامي، والتي يجب أن تحدد -في الأصل -وفق آلية معينة تبعاً لأولويات القضايا الواجب نشرها. ثانياً: جاءت معالجة كثير من القضايا قاصرة، وغير موفية بالغرض قد يرجع سببه إلى التركيز على محاور دون أخرى. ثالثاً: تركيز الصحف الثلاث حالة الدراسة (الرأي، الدستور، الغد) على أهداف معينة ومعدودة دون الأخرى. رابعاً: انفردت كل صحيفة بهدف أولته جزءاً كبيراً من اهتمامها، في حين أهملت أهدافاً أخرى أو همشتها من خلال منحه نسبة متدنية من جهة مجمل المنشور. خامساً: لم تحظ أهداف أخرى غير الأهداف السابقة بالاهتمام الكافي، مع أنها أهداف رئيسة للخطاب الديني الإسلامي. سادساً: قلة الموضوعات المتعلقة بإصلاح المجتمع ومعالجة صفحتها الدينية على مستوى الصحيفة نفسها، والصحف مجتمعة.

This study examines the representation of Islamic identity in Egyptian media discourse between 2014 and 2018, a period marked by official calls to \"renew religious discourse\" following intensified terrorist attacks. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, the research analyzes local newspapers and speeches of political and religious leaders, with a focus on President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Sheikh Al-Azhar Ahmed El-Tayeb. Findings reveal that Egyptian media largely aligned with the state's narrative promoting a \"religious revolution\" aimed at reshaping Islamic discourse toward moderation and openness, while portraying Islamist groups as a threat to national stability. The analysis also shows that newspapers contributed to redefining Islamic identity by associating it with concepts of citizenship, coexistence, tolerance, and rationality, while downplaying negative traits such as extremism and violence. Moreover, results indicate that official religious figures adopted a more cautious tone compared to the political discourse, which was more direct and security-focused. The study concludes that Islamic identity in Egyptian media during this period was not static but dynamic, constructed through the interplay of political, religious, and media narratives, and served as a tool for redirecting public opinion in line with state agendas. Abstract Written by Dar AlMandumh, 2025, Using AI

La notion de sens commun (SC), d'abord théorisée en philosophie, hérite d'une pluralité de définitions aux frontières si peu déterminées, qu'elles lui confèrent un caractère insaisissable. Et pour cause, cette notion est réinvestie dans plusieurs disciplines et à travers les propos de chercheurs et penseurs dont la terminologie diffère: doxa, rationalité commune, idée reçues, connaissance de premier degré, idéologie, images sociales, lieux commun, préjugés, etc. Au-delà de cette pluralité terminologique, le sens commun se rapporte communément aux opinions largement répandues et communément validées.

البحث جهد في محاولة الوقوف عند مشروع تيلـيش في تجديد الخطاب اللاهوتي من خلال الربط بين اللاهوت والفلسفة في محاولة تجديدية تعتمد على دور اللغة والرموز الدينية في إنتاج المعنى.

Cohesion is well known as the study of the relationships, whether grammatical and/or lexical, between the different elements of a particular text by the use of what are commonly called 'cohesive devices'. These devices bring connectivity and bind a text together. Besides, the nature and the amount of such cohesive devices usually affect the understanding of that text in the sense of making it easier to comprehend. The present study is intended to examine the use of grammatical cohesive devices in relation to narrative techniques. The story of Joseph from the Holy Quran has been selected to be examined by using Halliday and Hasan's Model of Cohesion (1976, 1989). The aim of the study is to comparatively examine to what extent the types of grammatical cohesive devices and their frequencies and densities are affected by the techniques of narration, namely, internal and external or as commonly known as conversational and narrative. The researcher has come into the conclusion that the grammatical cohesive devices form one third of the story and accordingly, they affect the structure and interpretation of the text. Moreover, the grammatical cohesive devices are more frequent in the conversational part when compared to the narrative part. It is also concluded that the endophoric reference is the dominant category in the conversational and narrative parts of the story, unlike the exospheric that can be identified only in relation to the background knowledge of the outside situation.