Volume 16 (2024)
Volume 15 (2023)
Volume 14 (2022)
Volume 13 (2021)
Volume 12 (2021)
Volume 11 (2020)
Volume 10 (2019)
Volume 9 (2017)
Volume 8 (2016)
Volume 7 (2015)
Volume 6 (2014)
Volume 5 (2013)
Volume 4 (2013)
Volume 3 (2012)
Volume 2 (2010)
Volume 1 (2009)
Pragmatics
Studying the Impact of Phonological Awareness Training on the Performance of Second Grade Female Elementary School Students in the Area of Mathematical Concepts

Elham Ziyayi; Azam Estaji; Atiyeh Kamyabi Gol

Volume 15, Issue 4 , March 2024, , Pages 75-105

Abstract
  Mathematical concepts including counting, comparing, and the spatial value of numbers is among the most fundamental fields that has many impacts on individuals’ life. In the process of counting, the child must retrieve the phonetic representations of numerical words. This is possible through phonological ...  Read More

A thematic analysis content linguistic of suicide note analysis of notes case study of 30 samples in Mashhad

Omid Darbar; Hamidreza Mirzajani; Abas Sheikholeslami; Azam Estaji

Volume 14, Issue 2 , July 2022, , Pages 1-29

Abstract
  Since suicide notes are the only reliable documents in suspicious deaths named as suicide in special branches, determining whether they are real or fake may play undeniable role in recognition of murder and subsequent judicial decisions in initial stages. The question is that “what approaches except ...  Read More

Discourse analysis
Linguistic analysis of suicide notes, two case studies

azam estaji

Volume 12, Issue 2 , December 2020, , Pages 177-202

Abstract
  A suicide note is any kind of text that is left behind before a person commits suicide or intends to commit suicide. These texts have been analyzed by linguists and psychologists among others to get a better understanding of the suicide act. The present paper first reviews how these notes have been analyzed ...  Read More

Analyzing the Relationship between Variables of Age, Sex, Field of Study, Geographical Region and Religion with the Speech Act of Lie

Fakhteh Nakhavali; Azam Estaji; Atiye Kamyabi Gol

Volume 11, Issue 1 , May 2019, , Pages 85-110

Abstract
  Extended Abstract Introduction Man achieves a multitude of purposes through social interaction. Social interactions dictate how we behave in society and sometimes in order to elude from various responsibilities, man resorts to lying. “Lie” can be defined in many different ways and based on ...  Read More

Semantic Triggers of Various Meanings of Bread

Ali Abdollahi Nezhad; Ali Izanloo; Azam Estaji

Volume 9, Issue 17 , July 2018, , Pages 153-174

Abstract
  Extended abstract 1- Introduction When a word resembles the meaning of another word, both words are in the same ideal cognitive domain and follow a certain conceptual cognitive pattern. Such associations suggest important relations between these concepts that can be because of so many reasons like ...  Read More

The Representation of the Concepts of Power, legitimacy and Social Inequalities in Pahlavi I’s Discourse in Addressing People

Abolfazl Shahali; Azam Estaji; Ali Alizadeh

Volume 9, Issue 16 , November 2017, , Pages 15-43

Abstract
  Extended Abstract 1- Introduction Discourse analysis is primarily concerned with not only investigating the formal features of discourse like syntax and phonology, but also considering the social functions of the discourse produced by language users in various social and cultural contexts (Van Dijk, ...  Read More

A Diachronic Study of Kinship Terms in Persian

azam estaji

Volume 7, Issue 13 , September 2015, , Pages 1-19

Abstract
  All languages have different terms for expressing kinship relations and it seems that beyond these differences one can find similarities in the different systems of kinship terms. Morgan (1871) is the first anthropologist who studied kinship systems in different languages and came to this conclusion ...  Read More

A Study of the Verbal Tense System in Adkan Dialect

Fatemeh Kazemi Motlagh; Mahmoud Elyasi; Azam Estaji

Volume 7, Issue 12 , July 2015, , Pages 49-78

Abstract
  The paper aims at describing verbal tense system in the dialect of Adkan, a village in Khorasan-e Shomali Province in the northeast of Iran. It seems that this dialect is one of the Tati Dialects in the area. Since the main objective was to collect the oldest dialect, the data was gathered by interviewing ...  Read More

Analysis of Pain-DescriptionSentences in Persian Based onHalliday'sModel

Amir Mohammadian; Azam Estaji; Shahla Sharifi; Mohammadreza Pahlevannezhad

Volume 6, Issue 10 , July 2014, , Pages 145-166

Abstract
  Pain is a phenomenon experienced more or less by all people during their lives. Since sufferers usually use language as the most important human communication tool to inform others about their pains, sentences describing pain and studying them linguistically may reveal some points. In this paper, after ...  Read More

An Analysis of Persian Phonology Based on Feature Geometry Framework

Azam Estaji; Soheila Noorbakhsh Beidokhti

Volume 4, Issue 7 , September 2013

Abstract
  Feature geometry, which is a basic assumption in current phonology, is concerned with the notion that the features are not an unstructured set, but are arranged hierarchically into a constituent structure tree. According to evidences in different languages, various models have been set forth on feature ...  Read More

Women’s Representation in War Stories for children; a Critical Discourse Analysis

Seddigheh Sadat Meghdari; Reza Zomorrodian; Azam Estaji; Mahdi Meshkat-o Dini

Volume 3, Issue 5 , January 2012

Abstract
  The ideological discourse analysis and critical studies in social and human sciences have been of much interest recently. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) aims at discovering the negative influences of language use on the production and reproduction of power and domination relationships in society. ...  Read More

A historical study of homophonous ke in Persian

azam Estaji

Volume 2, Issue 3 , October 2010

Abstract
  In Modern Persian the interrogative pronoun, the relative pronoun and the complementizer ke are homophonous and formally identical. The present paper based on the historical data from Persian, attempts to find the cause of this identity. Do they come from the same source or is this just an accident? ...  Read More