Implicating Mental Models, Local Interpretation, and Analogy of Facebook Comments upon the News of Paris Attack 11/13

摘要

This paper analyses the relationship among three fields; they are mental model, analogy, and local interpretation which are used as the basic principles to understand the problem in distinguishing people's responses toward verses in Quran. It uses the theories of Laird Johnson (1983) [1] and George Yule & Gillian Brown (1983) [2]. The theories are used to show that the mental models should not be a way to create stereotype and how people comprehend something differently beyond their culture, whereas culture is associated with analogy. Thus, there are always various interpretations especially in interpreting Quran which Muslims believe that Quran should not be translated. Yet, on the other hand, it is not the fault of the readers when they interpret differently and it is also not the fault of the translators.