Westernisation Critical reading of the term and concept

Section: Research Paper
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
109-119

Abstract

This research deals with a critical reading of the term Westernization and its concept, this term that appeared with the writings of the Russian Formalists, especially Shklovsky, and intended to depart from the norm in literature and at different levels related to the literary language in its various rhythmic, formal, semantic and structural manifestations, and for this reason this term overlapped with other terms such as poetics and displacement. Its concept also came close to the concepts of other terms adjacent to it, and all of this required us to re-read the term and its concept in order to clarify the problems related to it. From a morphological standpoint, the form of (gharb) comes with the weight of (fa'l) to indicate multiplication often, and it is often said in a verb that the multiplication of its subject has the root of the verb, meaning an exaggeration in it. What is observed here is that the verb is triple, increased by weakening, which leaves its morphological effect on the semantic side in terms of The increase, intentionality, and intentionality in departing from everything that is familiar.

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Khaled Younes, Z., زهراء, Ghanim Fathi, F., & فاتن. (2025). Westernisation Critical reading of the term and concept. Adab Al-Rafidayn, 54(98), 109–119. https://doi.org/10.33899/radab.2024.145720.2052