Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This study tries to bring into light the role of the modern technology and its cultural reflection on the personality of the Arabic Muslim child.
A great deal of recent researches focuses on the relationship between the children and modern technology.
Channels, electronic websites and other forms of modern technology jeopardize the cultural identity and principles of belonging. Educational and media institutes should play their role in maintaining the cultural and personal identity of these children. It should be the main priority of educational policy in Arab and Muslim countries.
This study makes use of (notion analysis) method in looking the meaning, functions and interpretations of the modern technology.
Childhood is a crucial and essential stage which decides much the other stages in a person's life. It is give a great importance in the writings of scientists, educationalists and psychologists to put the principles and rules of the growing up process and to form the personality later.
The absence of the cultural dimension of the Arabic Muslim child is child should make use of the modern technology without loosing his/her Islamic heritage and cultural identity.
The main job of the cultural institutes is to prepare the child to protect his/her entity and decide the future of this entity.
We should improve the scientific thinking of the child through curricula development, discovery learning prediction, problem solving mathematical diagrams, computer, programming and modern technology.

It is not an overstatement to say that punctuation communicates an interpretation of a written text. It is used as a part of style influenced by treatments of literary texts. As a linguistic form, punctuation will have a relation with stylistics as, a discipline mediating between linguistics and literary criticism. Stylistics represents the linguistic analysis of literary texts and its prior aim is to investigate thematic and aesthetic values generated by linguistic forms, these values convey the author’s vision, tone and attitude and increase the affective or the emotive force of the message and contribute to make fictional reality function more effectively in the thematic unity.
Lodge (1966: 4) puts style as: “the novelist’s medium is language: whatever he does, qua novelist, he does it in and through language”. What literary stylistics does is to bridge literary works with language. This paper maps the relation between punctuation and style and mainly explores the importance of the punctuation mark "dash", which appears widely in "The Black Cat", a short story written by Edger Allan Poe, treating the use of this punctuation mark as a stylistic device that more effectively participates in declaring certain types of emotions and state of affairs clearly manifested in the story.
The study falls into various sections: in section one, some definitions and functions of punctuation are explained. Section two is mostly devoted to present a survey of the concepts: 'Style', 'Stylistics', 'literary Stylistics' and,' literary criticism'. And then, in section three, the short story "The Black Cat" is analyzed depending on the using of the punctuation mark (dash -).Finally, a summary and the conclusion of the results of the study are represented in the last section.