حيدر محمد كطان

يهدف البحث الحالي إلى تسليط الضوء على ظاهرة التعدد المصطلحي في الأدبيات العربية لعلم النفس وتخصصاته الدقيقة. إستندت إجراءات البحث على جمع وجدولت عينات متنوعة من المصطلحات التخصصية في عناوين البحوث النفسية وكلماتها المفتاحية. أظهرت النتائج وجود "تعدد مصطلحي" في لغة علم النفس عند مستويات متباينة عبر تخصصاته المتنوعة. وبشكل خطير، تؤكد البيانات وجود فوضى كبيرة في مصطلحات متصلة بالصحة النفسية. نُوقشت النتائج في ضوء إشكاليات ومعايير ترجمة وتعريب المصطلحات الاجنبية، والتكيف مع الطبيعة المورفولوجية للغة العربية. وأخيراً، لخص الباحث عدد من التوصيات إلى المؤسسات ذات العلاقة، ومجموعة من المحددات والمقترحات لدراسات مستقبلية.

The debate is still ongoing regarding the link between verbal short-term memory and long-term memory. This debate is built on a long history of research that has examined only a limited number of linguistic features, mainly phonological elements. It is suggested that phonological encoding in STM can be extended to phonological representations in the mental lexicon. However, semantic information can also influence STM performance. Thus, the link between verbal short-term memory and long-term memory cannot be ignored. These long-term memory effects in STM have mostly been shown in serial recall performance; the typical measure that has been used to examine short-term memory because it requires immediate recall of information in serial order. Variables that reflect long-term memory factors have been manipulated in this task in a few different ways, but can be categorised into two approaches. The first approach is to compare performance on lists that differ on corpus-based variables such as word frequency or semantic factors such as concreteness, which reflect an involvement of long-term representations in the task. The second approach is to manipulate the relatedness of words within the list, with those relationships reflecting long-term factors, such as categorical membership. In the current project a series of experiments testing auditory-verbal serial recall, using both of these approaches, but in the context of Arabic linguistic materials, is presented. The primary motivation of this work is to contribute to the research outlining effects of long-term memory (by the means of linguistic features) on short-term memory performance by examining the influence of the Semitic language features of root and pattern on serial recall. The results showed the root and pattern corpus information was a strong contributor in recall of nonwords. There was an effect of authentic root over non-authentic roots and a high prevalence in the errors to preserve the presented pattern of the item. The root feature can provide access to semantic information, and the pattern feature can provide cues to phonological word forms. The study provides evidence for a role of LTM effects at the morphological level of root and pattern elements in supporting STM.

POETRY IN THE MINEFIELDS (Iraqi poets translated by Haider Catan and Tim Heffernan) (edited by Ramon Loyola & Michele Seminara) AN EXTRACT FROM THE INTRODUCTION TO THE POETRY IN THE MINEFIELDS By Abdulrahman Almajedi, Iraqi journalist and poet living in the Netherlands