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)
Semantics
An Analysis of Meaning Generation Processes through Discourse Semiotic Systems in the Story of Zal and Roudabeh

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini Maasoum; Marjan Akbari

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available Online from 23 October 2024

Abstract
  Discourse-semiotics is a discipline that carries out a process study of language. This discipline considers the sign as the source and meaning as the goal of its work. Semiotics chooses discourse as its field of work. Since literature is one of the examples of dynamic discourses, discourse-semiotics ...  Read More

A Comparison of the Application of Different Types of Repair in the Speech of Persian-Speaking Men & Women in Live TV Shows

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini-Maasoum; Maliheh Hajian Nezhad,

Volume 14, Issue 1 , April 2022, , Pages 183-208

Abstract
  Speech repair, also called conversational repair, as one of the most important instruments for the maintenance of the conversation and preventing communication breach, can be an effective factor in daily conversations and relations. Here, gender, as a sociolinguistic factor, can cause differences in ...  Read More

Phase Derivation of a Class of Persian Compound Predicates

reza Heidarizadi; Seyed Mohammad Hosseini-Maasoum; Arezoo Najafian; Belqeis Roshan

Volume 8, Issue 15 , January 2017, , Pages 53-74

Abstract
  1. Introduction Persian compound verbs have been the topic of much research and have been investigated on the basis of various approaches. A clear fact about complex predicates is that they are constructions formed by more than one lexeme. The light verb in a complex predicate is the head and the other ...  Read More

Pitch Accent Pattern in the Persian Speech of Iranian Persian-English Speaking Men and Women

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini-Maasoum; Zahra Rezayee

Volume 7, Issue 12 , July 2015, , Pages 1-27

Abstract
  Autosegmental-metrical (AM) phonology distinguishes two types of accents (stresses), namely: lexical accent and pitch accent. The present study offers an acoustic analysis of the prosodic feature, pitch accent, in the Persian speech of Persian speakers who are fluent in English as a second language (English ...  Read More

An Analysis of the Connotation and Semantic Prosody of Words in the Semantic System and Collocations of Persian

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini-Maasoum

Volume 4, Issue 7 , September 2013

Abstract
  The link between studies in discourse analysis and corpus linguistics has created new fields of research previously unattended. One of these areas is the study of semantic prosody produced through frequent collocation of a lexical item with a collection of words. Semantic prosody is the positive, negative ...  Read More

Phonological Processes in Mashahdi Speakers with Different Levels of Education Compared to the Standard Language

S. Mohhamad Hosseini-Maasoum; Toktam Hosseini

Volume 5, Issue 9 , July 2013, , Pages 119-141

Abstract
  In sociolinguistics, the role of factors such as level of education in different aspects of language has always been the focus of attention. The present research, which was conducted in Mashhad, seeks to study phonological processes among educated and uneducated speakers compared to Standard Persian. ...  Read More

The Function of Negation Category in the Syntactic Analysis of Persian; An Account of the Negation Process

Seyed Mohammad Hosseini-Maasoum

Volume 3, Issue 5 , January 2012

Abstract
  One of the main dichotomies in syntactic analyses deals with the distinction between lexical and functional categories. Functional categories gain in stature as the generative grammar moves ahead. They come into play in explaining the derivation stages of phrases and sentences. The present study critically ...  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