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Analysis Of The Expressions Of Acceptance Of Sickness In Jordanian Arabic In Light Of Islamic And Arabic Culture: A Socio-Psychological Approach, Maram Al-Abdullah, Raidah Al-Ramadan
Analysis Of The Expressions Of Acceptance Of Sickness In Jordanian Arabic In Light Of Islamic And Arabic Culture: A Socio-Psychological Approach, Maram Al-Abdullah, Raidah Al-Ramadan
Association of Arab Universities Journal for Arts مجلة اتحاد الجامعات العربية للآداب
The study is a socio-psychological analysis of recurrent well-wishing utterances or expressions Jordanians usually use when they visit patients or react to the Facebook posts of patients. Studying a collection of 33 recurrent utterances and expressions gathered from four active accounts on Facebook shows that these expressions are loaded with the cultural dimensions of reception and acceptance of pain and how the Islamic culture provides a positive attitude that furnishes a reassuring factor that helps in recovery. The study means to demonstrate that expressions are normally based on and derived directly from the Holy Qur’an, Hadith of the Prophet, and …