title: Sentiment Analysis of the Image of the Franks (ifranj) in the Arabic Folk Epic Sīrat D ˍāt al-Himma
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metadata.value: Sokolov, Oleg A.
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metadata.value: 2024-03-29T16:59:19Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03-29T16:59:19Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Sokolov O. A. Sentiment Analysis of the Image of the Franks (ifranj) in the Arabic Folk Epic Sīrat D ˍāt al-Himma. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 741–749. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.409
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.409
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45189
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metadata.value: The method of sentiment analysis opens up great prospects for historical and anthropological
  research, primarily for studying the problems of the construct of the image of the Other. To
  test this method on the material of the Arabic language, I chose the Arabic folk epics as they
  are a conflux of the cultural memory of Arab population of Levant and Egypt, insufficiently
  investigated from the point of view of historical anthropology. The narratives of the Arabic
  folk epics combine an ancient Arabian tribal folklore, as well as fabulous and legendary stories
  of ancient Semitic and Persian origin, in addition to the chronicles from different periods of
  the history of Islam. The epic Sīrat Dˍ āt al-Himma (“The Life of Ḏāt al-Himma”) was taken as
  an example to analyze the contexts about the Franks in this type of sources, and to conceptualize
  the patterns of creating the emotive image of the Frank-Crusader. The main patterns of
  creating the image of the Other in the epic are the opposition of the followers of the true and
  heretical faiths, the attribution of deviant and bestial behavior to the Franks, and the depiction
  of them as carriers of demonic superpowers. The tropes and stylistic devices of metaphor,
  epithet and hyperbole, used in these cases, are joined to evoke laughter, fear and hatred of the
  Franks at the same time in the listener of the folk epics, making comic relief one of the most
  recurrently used techniques as it usually involves all abovementioned emotions.
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metadata.value: The research was supported by Russian Science Foundation (project no. 22-28-01046, https://rscf.
  ru/en/project/22-28-01046/). I am also grateful to dr. Natalia Kizhaeva for processing the source text using
  the CAMeL Tools (Python) algorithm.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sentiment analysis
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arabic folk epic
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: image of the Other
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arab history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Crusades
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Sentiment Analysis of the Image of the Franks (ifranj) in the Arabic Folk Epic Sīrat D ˍāt al-Himma
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metadata.value: Article
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