An Analytical Evaluation of Research in the Field of Figurative Language in the Literary Arts ‎Journal

Scientific journals are considered as a key axis in the transfer and spreading of knowledge in various fields of study, and the promotion of research depends on the activities carried out in these journals. In Literary Arts Journal, significant and applied studies are not few. Hence, considering the scientific nature that such studies give to literary studies, they help a lot in rejecting the thinking in which literature is considered a matter of taste and being unscientific. Therefore, analytical and pathological approaches to explain the positive and negative points of the articles could be beneficial. The extent of research in the field of rhetorical sciences, especially the field of expression studies, as the most prominent form of transmission and spread of literary knowledge, highlights the importance of content and methodological analysis of suchresearch.Therefore, this research evaluates the content and structure of the articles with a descriptive-analytical approach and leads to the point that some of the articles have weaknesses in terms of structure, content, and violation of rules in using sources. The results could help provide a basis for scientific journals to include rules in their guidelines that could raise the quality of rhetorical studies on the subject of rhetoric and increase referrals to them.