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
A Review and Investigation on Cappelen and Lepore's Semantic Minimalism using Persian Language Data

Mohammadreza Pahlavannezhad

Volume 16, Issue 1 , August 2024, , Pages 55-73

Abstract
  The present study reviewed Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore’s theory of Semantic Minimalism. This theory was proposed as a universal semantic theory in linguistics in 2005. In this article, the Semantic Minimalism theory was examined in Persian language and on the data of this language. By examining ...  Read More

Linguistics
A Study on the Characters of “Souvashoon” Based on Simpson’s Narrative Stylistics and Halliday’s Functional Grammar

Mohammad Reza Pahlavannezhad; Rayhaneh Ahmadi; Sajjad Bagheri

Volume 15, Issue 2 , September 2023, , Pages 1-28

Abstract
  This paper employs Halliday Functional Grammar and Simpson's framework to conduct a stylistic analysis of Simin Daneshvar's "Souvashoon". The analysis utilizes Systemic Functional Grammar to examine the novel's ideational and experiential meta function, verbal processes, and Mood. Additionally, Simpson's ...  Read More

Critical Discourse Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis of the Film "Suteh-Delan"

Mohammad Reza Pahlavannezhad

Volume 14, Issue 3 , December 2022, , Pages 193-215

Abstract
  Critical analysis as one of the discourse analysis approaches that tries to demystify power relationships and hidden ideologies in it by text denaturalization and review of structures and discourse-oriented components of texts. In the present research, dominant discourse analysis approaches and text ...  Read More

A Study of Code-switching and its Purposes and Social Factors affecting it Among Azeri Turkish-Persian-speaking Teachers in Urmia City

Mozhgan Habibi; Mahmoud Elyasi; Mohammad Reza Pahlavan Nezhad

Volume 11, Issue 1 , May 2019, , Pages 39-59

Abstract
  Extended Abstract Introduction As a remarkable topic in sociolinguistics, code-switching is a natural phenomenon among many bilingual communities throughout the world. Van Dulm (2007) describes this phenomenon as the use of two or more languages while making an utterance or a sentence. Azeri Turkish-Persian ...  Read More

The sound level structure in Farsi speakers’ mental lexicon: A priming study

Fahimeh Nasib Zarraby; Mohammadreza Pahlavannezhad; Ali Mashhadi

Volume 7, Issue 12 , July 2015, , Pages 101-120

Abstract
  The spreading activation models of mental lexicon's structure have presented the lexicon in multiple layers (semantic- syntactic- phonological). Each layer is a network of nodes which are associated by links. The nature of these links is different from layer to layer. The literature for English speakers ...  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

A Description of the Phonological Structure of Alimirzayee Dialect of Sarakhs

Mohammad Reza Pahlavannezhad; Mahnaz Shahroodi

Volume 4, Issue 6 , January 2013

Abstract
  The present article describes the common phonological features of linguistic varieties in 20 areas of Sarakhs city. One hundred linguistic forms were gathered through interviews and questionnaires. The subjects were mostly adults, farmers, illiterate people and villagers. The phonological processes observed ...  Read More

A Typological Study of Causative Constructions in Persian

Mojtaba Namvar Faragi; Mohammad Reza Pahlavannezhad

Volume 3, Issue 4 , January 2012

Abstract
  Causative constructions play an important role in the mental and linguistic system of human beings. The methodology that is used in this paper for studying causative constructions in Persian is the combination of the Morphology-based approach and Song’s model (1996, 2001). Emphasizing the causer NP ...  Read More

The Role of TP as a Functional Category in the Syntax of Persian; a Minimalist Approach

Mohammad Reza Pahlavannezhad; Mehdi Meshkatod Dini; Seyed Mohammad Hosseini Masoum

Volume 2, Issue 2 , October 2010

Abstract
  The Minimalist Program is the most recent approach in generative linguistics. The program mainly seeks to analyze the hierarchical structure of the sentences in human languages with regard to the mental linguistic knowledge of the speakers. An interesting aspect of the structural analysis in this approach ...  Read More