Conferences
Arabic Language Dept.
The 3rd International
Conference
Modern Critique
Methodologies
Poetic Text: Applied
Readings
Conference Handbook
16-18 March 2015
As a continuation of the previous two conferences the Department Of Arabic Language and
Literature held at SQU and after studying the recommendations and Methodologies and
Their Application on Texts”. The title has been in demand for a long time by a number of
researchers, teachers, and students at high schools and universities. It should be noted that
there is abundance in critical theorization and especially on application on texts. Even
though it is difficult to separate theory and application epistemologically, the need to deal
with texts by tasting, understanding, and explaining them requires transferring the critiquing
concepts into procedural mechanisms to deal with the poetic text since it carries several
aspects or is the multi-conceptual single face based on Roland Barthes’ metaphor.
The poetic text have been and will remain difficult to interpret and needs more than one
explanation and understanding especially that it alternates between clarifying eloquence
and ambiguity eloquence, and between a tendency to maintain the poem’s structure and a
tendency to beak it. No critiquing methodology, regardless of how scientifically solid it is,
can claim the right to maintain the meaning and read in one style only. On the contrary,
many scholars and language experts say that ambiguity is the art of literary texts and multireading the flavor and this new modern approach calls for difference and encourages variety
in understanding the poetic text and analyzing it.
Based on the decision of Department of Arabic Language and Literature Council, it has been
approved to keep the future conferences’ titles on “Contemporary Critiquing Methodologies
in Language and Art” dealing with a certain type of literary text or issue. A number of
conferences, seminars, and studies have been held in Arabic and Western universities on
Critiquing Methodologies; however, researchers and students still complain of a wide gap in
applied studies. Therefore, the department by its plans and strategies hopes that the studies
presented for this conference will have an applied approach including all old and modern
literary styles and types.
The committee has chosen “Poetic Text” Applied Readings” to be the topic of this
conference in order to deal with the old and modern Arabic poetry and Poetry in the Gulf
and Oman. It is advisable the presented studies deal with poetic texts that haven’t been yet
studies in order to be an encouragement for writers and a help for the researchers and
students to grasp these modern critiquing methodologies and enable them to use the
procedural critiquing tools to read these poetic texts, understand them, and analyze them
scientifically.
It is well-know that linguistics and language studies have a clear role in critiquing
methodologies. They have contributed significantly in bringing “Symmetry” in analyzing
literary texts objectively and scientifically. From them, the critiquing methodologies
characterized with symmetry have been found. However, there are some methodologies
that went against “Closed-Symmetry” and adopted “Open-Symmetry” which gave variation
in analysis and multitude in interpretation. Therefore, these critiquing methodologies face
the challenges of poetic texts with their accumulated history and offered richness in
semantic possibilities.
With this vision, this conference makes us face poetic texts with various critiquing tools. It
tries to answer a number of questions in the reader’s mind including: What do the modern
critiquing methodologies offer in order to deepen the understanding of artistic and semantic
possibilities offered by old and modern poetic texts? How to deal with renewable aesthetics
and creative styles in order to get close to the meaning? And How to re-read the Arabic
poetic heritage and find aspects not found before? Such questions form the general
framework, vision, and goals of this conference.
Conference Objectives:
Focusing on applied criticism understanding and analyzing texts.
Looking at the richness of Arabic poetic text by various readings in light of the modern
critiquing methodologies.
Absorbing fully the modern critiquing methodologies through analyzing texts.
Easing difficulties faced by students and teachers in dealing with the modern and old poetic
texts.
Presenting a scientific content to the students in the area of critiquing poetic texts.
Conference Themes:
First Theme: Linguistic Analysis.
Second Theme: Structural Analysis.
Third Theme: Stylistic Analysis.
Fourth Theme: Semiotic Analysis.
Fifth Theme: Pragmatic Analysis.
Sixth Theme: Argumentative Analysis.
Seventh Theme: Interpretive Analysi
The 2nd International
Conference
Arabic Language and Literature
Conference: "A Contemporary
Vision"
Conference Proceedings
2 - 3 December 2012
Vol. ll
Vol. l
Language sciences have achieved great successes in both theoretical and applied spheres.
They have merged with the human, natural, medical, and technical sciences to create new
linguistic and literary disciplines. Arising from this, the Department of Arabic Language has
chosen to organize an international conference entitled “Arabic Language and Literature: A
Contemporary Vision” to examine this contemporary vision of the sciences of Arabic
language and literature and how the Arabic language has benefited from it.
The Vision:
The Department of Arabic Language hopes that this conference will successfully highlight the
contemporary vision of Arabic language sciences outlined by Arab scholars through their
contemporary perusal of Arabic sciences in the fields of linguistics, literature and criticism.
The Mission:
The Organizing Committee seeks, in this conference, to achieve its goals by presenting
serious studies in which classical and contemporary views of Arabic language sciences
intertwine. It also aims at making use of the new approaches in linguistics and literary and
critical
studies.
The Objectives:
In compliance with the university’s demand to improve the research skills of SQU faculty, the
conference aims at:
1. giving the opportunity to specialists in the language sciences to meet and share
experiences and expertise in order serve their research in various fields.
2. re-reading the works of early Arabic language scholars using modern approaches to allow
contemporary researchers to profit from the salient aspects of those works.
3. addressing disciplinary features of early works, in an attempt to highlight the features that
can be utilized to formulate disciplinary Arabic language concept, merging early efforts with
modern research methods.
Themes:
a. Language Themes:
i.
Arabic
scholars
contribution
to
phonetics:
a
contemporary
vision
ii. Syntactic and morphological notions in the eyes of contemporary scholars
iii. Issues of semantics with early Arabic scholars in the light of modern linguistics
iv.
Modern
Arabic
dictionaries:
criticism
and
evaluation
b. Critical Themes:
i. Readings in Arabic rhetoric and critical heritage: a contemporary vision
ii. Modern critical approaches: a critical view
iii. Towards a contemporary Arabic critique approach: theoretical background and applied
efficiency